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Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning ...

Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning ...

Julie Wosk

In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women's interactions with -- and understanding of -- machinery has been defined in Western popular culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other ...

My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other ...

Julie Wosk

Lavishly illustrated with film stills, artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation.
The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader

The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader

Fiona Hovenden

5 Julie Wosk.Breaking Frame:Technology and theVisualArts in the Nineteenth Century. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. 81. 6 Ibid. p. 79. 7 Ernst Von Bassermann-Jordan. The Book of Old Clocks and Watches. Trans. H. Alan Lloyd.
Brazilian Railway Culture

Brazilian Railway Culture

Martin Cooper

Elements of this interrogation of the railway ensemble have been noted in other countries. Julie Wosk identifies an age of trauma in railway art between the 1830s and the 1870s: “It was European caricaturists, much more than American artists, ...
My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other ...

My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other ...

Julie Wosk

Alison Anderson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 8; and also Essaka Joshua, Pygmalion and Galatea: The History of a Narrative in English Literature (Aldershot, Hants, UK; and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001), 1–2.
My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other ...

My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other ...

Julie Wosk

Taking us on a fascinating tour across a wide variety of media, from sci-fi films to underwear ads,My Fair Ladies introduces us to a bevy of lifelike, manmade women, from automatons to artificial intelligent robots.
Apocalyptic Projections: A Study of Past Predictions, ...

Apocalyptic Projections: A Study of Past Predictions, ...

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Critics Julie Wosk, Michael Cowan, and Andreas Huyssen have discussed how control is one of the main themes in Metropolis—the exertion of control over the robot [mechanical] Maria by Rotwang and Joh Frederson, the robot [mechanical]  ...
Classworks Non-Fiction Year 1

Classworks Non-Fiction Year 1

Julie Orrell

i □ - □ □ m mm w How to use this book Texts Captions and lists 4 5-54 1-2 Captions for the classroom Julie Orrell 3 Captions for workbooks Julie Orrell 4 Names list Julie Orrell 5 Class register Julie Orrell Instructions 6 Our class rules Julie ...
Abstracts of Papers Delivered in Art History Sessions: ... ...

Abstracts of Papers Delivered in Art History Sessions: ... ...

College Art Association of America. Meeting

Studio Art Session Interactive Art: A Thirty- Year Retrospective Chair: Julie Wosk, State University of New York, Maritime College This session will present historical perspectives on the past thirty years of interactive art, starting with cybernetic, ...
Julie

Julie

Jean Craighead George

Julie has been reunited with her long-lost father, who, although retaining some of the old traditions, has also embraced many of the new 'western' approaches to life. Once again Julie - or Miyax, her Eskimo name - feels torn in two.
Hart Strings

Hart Strings

Julie Hart

Beginning with Julie’s teen years and early romance with Bret, the story follows the couple’s marriage, children, divorce, and continued presence in each other’s lives, culminating in Julie’s growing role as one of the new ...
Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper

Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper

Julie Speed

Her art brings to mind the work of Renaissance painters, but Julie Speed is unencumbered by the sexual and societal restrictions of past centuries, which gives her the freedom to paint what she wants, the way she wants.
Pretend You Love Me

Pretend You Love Me

Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters ... his death change her view of him? 9. Who gained the mostin this story?Who lost the most? 10. What do you predict for Mike's future? What doyou hope for her? What about Jamie? Xanadu? Julie Anne Peters is the critically ...
JULIE

JULIE

Juliette Montgomery

This book is a chronicle of fifteen years of Julie’s life.
The Mentoring Manual: Your step by step guide to being a ...

The Mentoring Manual: Your step by step guide to being a ...

Julie Starr

Also by Julie Starr Whether you're new to coaching or already very experienced in the field, Julie Starr will guide you through the entire process from first meeting to when coaching ends. 'CH' Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate ...
Contemporary Australian Collage and Its Origins

Contemporary Australian Collage and Its Origins

Arthur McIntyre

Julie Brown-Rrap Caul Over Mutton Mixed-media on canvas 1985 150x90 cm. Represented: Mori Gallery, Sydney. JULIE BROWN-RRA P Julie Brown-Rrap is a Sydney-based artist who has made a reputation from exploring innovative ways ...
Julie the Rockhound

Julie the Rockhound

Gail Karwoski

When Julie finds a quartz crystal in her backyard, her father explains to her what it is and how to find similar rocks and minerals.
Christopher's Story Part II

Christopher's Story Part II

Julie Telfer

Julie Telfer. CHRISTOPHER'S STORY PART II THE CHILD WITHIN THE MAN By Julie Telfer 'One million people commit suicide every year' The World Health Organization All rights reserved, no part of this publication may be. Front Cover.
Julie the Rockhound

Julie the Rockhound

Gail Langer Karwoski

When Julie finds a quartz crystal in her backyard, her father explains to her what it is and how to find similar rocks and minerals.
Julie: A Novel

Julie: A Novel

Maurice Valency

The narrator, an English professor, begins an affair with Julie, a twenty-five-year-old graduate student, but she seems more interested in Ashby, his artist friend
Contact met dierbaren na zelfdoding: een troostrijk boek ...

Contact met dierbaren na zelfdoding: een troostrijk boek ...

Steffany Barton

Julie leek oké. Maar Julie was niet oké. Julie was ongeneeslijk ziek en zou een langzame, pijnlijke dood sterven. Het was op geen enkele test te zien en al haar bloedwaarden waren in orde, maar ze was ziek, diep ongelukkig, depressief en ...
Julie

Julie

Catherine Marshall

Julie Wallace is just eighteen in 1934 when her father risks their life savings on a struggling newspaper and moves the family to a flood-prone Pennsylvania town.
Eat Better, Live Better, Feel Better: Alkalize Your ...

Eat Better, Live Better, Feel Better: Alkalize Your ...

Julie Cove

In this beautiful book, Julie gives you everything you need to quickly feel the benefits of the alkaline way of life.
A MÚsica De Julie London

A MÚsica De Julie London

George Batista Da Silva

Uma coletânea das melhores músicas da cantora estadunidense Julie London.
Introduction to Algorithms

Introduction to Algorithms

Thomas H. Cormen

Julie Sussman, P.P.A., once again bailed us out as the technical copyeditor. Time and again, we were amazed at the errors that eluded us, but that Julie caught. She also helped us improve our presentation in several places. If there is a Hall of ...
Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood

Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood

Julie Gregory

Most MBP children die. Julie Gregory not only found the courage to survive, but to save others.
The Prada Paradox

The Prada Paradox

Julie Kenner

Julie Kenner is the author of two previous novels in this series,The Givenchy Code and The Manolo Matrix, both available from Downtown Press.
Letters to Nowhere:

Letters to Nowhere:

Julie Cross

From NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Julie Cross, a Mature YA contemporary set in the tough world of Elite Gymnastics.
Romantic Conventions

Romantic Conventions

Anne K. Kaler

Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer Julie Tetel Andresen My name is Julie, and I write romances. Over the years, I have sometimes felt like I am at an unofficial AA meeting where I must ...

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