Alluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves

Images of artificial women from early mechanical automatons to the Stepford Wives and Today's Japanese Robots That Look So Real They Can Easily Fool the Eye

Images of Women and Machines (including automobiles,airplanes, bicycles, Rosie-the-Riveter war work, household machines, and more) in art, photography, advertising, and other visual images.

Images by artists reflect the dramatic impact of industrialization and new machines on nineteenth-century American and British society. Includes chapters on nineteenth-century design (ornamented steam engines, sewing machines, ornamental cast iron, electroplated silverware, and more).