Dynamos and virgins revisited : women and technological change in history : an anthology / edited by Martha Moore Trescott.

Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Scarecrow Press, 2003, ©1979.

iv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

1st. pbk. ed.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.