Trescott, Martha Moore (Editor)
Scarecrow Press
Physical Details: iv + 280 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Description Contents: Overview : From Virginia Dare to Virginia Slims: Women and technology in American life / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Part I. Women as active participants in technological change -- Women operatives in industry -- The programmed brocade loom and the “decline of the drawgirl” / Daryl M. Hafter -- Ladies and looms: The social impact of machine power in the American carpet industry / Susan Levine -- Technological change and women's work: Mechanization in the Berkshire paper industry, 1820-1855 / Judith A. McGaw -- Women inventors, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs -- Women inventors at the centennial / Deborah J. Warner -- Women scientists in America before 1920 / Margaret W. Rossiter -- Julia B. Hall and Aluminum / Martha Moore Trescott -- Part II. effects of technological change on women in the domestic spheres -- Women as housewives and homemakers -- Technology and women's work: The lives of working class women in Pittsburgh, 1870-1900 / Susan J. Kleinberg -- The “Industrial Revolution” in the home: Household technology and social change in the 20th century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Females as children and as bearers and rearers of children -- Female physiology, technology and women's liberation / Vern L. Bullough -- Toys, technology and sex roles in America, 1920-1940 / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. (from WorldCat) See:
Chapter Pursell, Carroll W. (1979) Toys, technology, and sex roles in America, 1920--1940. In: Dynamos and virgins revisited: Women and technological change in history (p. 252).
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