Alluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves

My Works



BREAKING FRAME: TECHNOLOGY AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Rutgers University Press, 1992).
This heavily-illustrated book includes chapters on mechanized humans and automatons,the railroad in art, steam engine design, and more. The book will appear as a reprint paperback edition in 2009. Watch for it!

Selected Works

NEW BOOK
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
Book
WOMEN AND THE MACHINE: REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE SPINNING WHEEL TO THE ELECTRONIC AGE (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001).
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.
Third Book
BREAKING FRAME: TECHNOLOGY AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Rutgers University Press, 1992).
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).