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Gender, Technology and the New

Woman
Lena Wånggren
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.
May 2017
232 pp • HB • 978-1-4744-1626-9
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