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Gender, Technology and the New Woman

Gender, Technology and the New Woman

Wånggren, Lena

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474416268
ISBN13: 9781474416269
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 10 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writing
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. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-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.

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