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Author Wånggren, Lena, author.

Title Gender, technology and the new woman / Lena Wånggren.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-212) and index.
Contents The new woman in technological modernity -- Typewriters and typists : secretarial agency at the fin de siècle -- The 'freedom machine' : the new woman and the bicycle -- Medical new women I : nurses -- Medical new women II : doctors -- Technologies of detection.
Summary This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Equality in literature.
Equality in literature.
Technology in literature.
Technology in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wånggren, Lena. Gender, technology and the new woman. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474416269 (OCoLC)963913901
ISBN 9781474416276 (electronic book)
1474416276 (electronic book)
9781474416269
1474416268
9781474416283 (epub)
1474416284
9781474416283