Gender, Technology and the New Woman

Lena Wånggren (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1626-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siecle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key 19th-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the crisis in gender or sexual anarchy of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine, As this monograph demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in this technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation

Lena Wanggren is Research Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Culture
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-1626-8 / 1474416268
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-1626-9 / 9781474416269
Zustand	Neuware