| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Ruth Oldenziel. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Distributed by University of Michigan Press. 1999. Pp. 271. $24.95.

In this unusual study, Ruth Oldenziel explores the origins of the identification of technology with men and masculinity. Using postmodern language and analytical tools, Oldenziel focuses on the development of the hardware of technology—from tools to machines—and the advocates of technology—from such writers as Thorstein Veblen to the new professional class of engineers. Referring to "engineers and machines" as the "markers of modern manliness" (p. 119), she demonstrates the systematic exclusion of women from what she regards as the glorification, indeed adulation, of technology in twentieth-century America. . . .

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