Gender, Technology and the New Woman

Lena Wånggren

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Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: December 2017
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474416276

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory
Series:: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Illustrations
pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-ix

Series Editor's Preface
pp x-xii

Introduction
pp 1-11

1 - The New Woman in Technological Modernity
pp 12-33

2 - Typewriters and Typists: Secretarial Agency at the Fin de Siècle
pp 34-61

3 - The ‘Freedom Machine’: The New Woman and the Bicycle
pp 62-100

4 - Medical New Women I: Nurses
pp 101-131

5 - Medical New Women II: Doctors
pp 132-163

6 - Technologies of Detection
pp 164-195

Conclusion
pp 196-197

Bibliography
pp 198-212

Index
pp 213-218

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