Bibliography
Women in the History of Technology (WITH)
Bibliography for the 50th Anniversary of the Society for the History of Technology, 2008
Compiled by: Rachel Maines (Cornell University, USA) and Daryl Hafter (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
This is a work in progress–your comments, suggestions and changes are welcome. List is by no means complete!
General Works
Bindocci, Cynthia Gay. Women and Technology: An Annotated Bibliography, (Women’s History and Culture, no. 7). Garland, 1993.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. “From Virginia Dare to Virginia Slims: Women and Technology in American Life,” Technology and Culture 20, no. 1 (1979): 51-63.
———. A Social History of American Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
———. “Technology is to Science as Female is to Male: Musings on the History and Character of Our Discipline,” Technology and Culture 37, no. 3, (1996): 572 (11 pages).
Hafter, Daryl M. “International Conference on the Role Of Women in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Veszprem, Hungary, August 15-19, 1983,” Technology and Culture 26, no. 2 (1985): 262-67.
Horowitz, Roger, and Arwen Mohun. His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Hoyrup, Else. Women of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Bibliography, (Skriftserie fra Roskilde Universitets-bibliotek, no. 15.): Roskilde U. Lib., 1987.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. “Sustaining Gains: Reflections on Women in Science and Technology in 20th-Century United States,” NWSA Journal 16, no. 1 (2004): 1-26.
Lerman, Nina E., Ruth Oldenziel, and Arwen Mohun. Gender & Technology: A Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Long, Pamela O. Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge From Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Long, Pamela O. Science and Technology in Medieval Society. New York, N.Y.: New York Academy of Sciences, 1985.
McGaw, Judith A. Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg Va. by the University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
McGaw, Judith. “Women and the History of American Technology,” Signs 7, no. 4 (1982): 798-828.
Ochs, Kathleen. “Decolonizing the Technological Imagination: Towards a Framework for the History of Technology,” International Journal of the Humanities 3, no. 3 (2005): 7-14.
———. “Women and Technology: a Review of the Literature,” Research in Philosophy and Technology 16 (1997): 243-75.
Oldenziel, Ruth. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945: Amsterdam U. Pr., 1999.
———. “Signifying Semantics for a History of Technology,” Technology and Culture 47, no. 3 (2006): 477-85.
Osietzki, Maria. “Männertechnik und Frauenwelt. Technikgeschichte aus der Perspektive des Geschlechterverhältnisses [Male Technology and the World of Women: The History of Technology from the Perspective of the Relations Between the Sexes].” Technikgeschichte 59, no. 1 (1992): 45-72.
Rothschild, Joan. Machina ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology, Athene series. New York: Pergamon Press, 1983.
———. Teaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective: a Practical Guide. New York: Pergamon Press, 1988.
Smulyan, Susan. “Discovering Science and Technology Through American History,” Technology and Culture 35, no. 4 (1994): 846-56.
Trescott, Martha Moore. Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History. Scarecrow, 1979.
Williams, Rosalind H. Notes on the Underground : an Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
———. Retooling: a Historian Confronts Technological Change. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
Williams, Rosalind H., “Opening the Big Box,” Technology and Culture 48, no. 1 (2007): 104-116.
———.”A Technological World We Can Live In,” Technology and Culture 43, no. 1 (2002): 222-226.
Agriculture
Bray, Francesca. The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies. Oxford Oxfordshire and New York: Blackwell, 1986.
Fitzgerald, Deborah Kay. The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn In Illinois, 1890-1940. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
———. Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture, Yale agrarian studies series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
———. Science Pure And Applied: The Paradox of Hybrid Corn, 1989. sound recording.
Menzies, Heather. “Technology in the Craft of Ontario Cheesemaking: Women in Oxford
County Circa 1860,” Ontario History 87, no. 3 (1995): 293-304.
Martin, Susan. “Gender and Innovation: Farming, Cooking and Palm Processing in the
Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1930,” Journal of African History 25, no. 4 (1984): 411-27.
Wright, Marcia. “Technology, Marriage and Women’s Work in the History of Maize-Growers
In Mazabuka, Zambia: A Reconnaissance,” Journal of Southern African Studies 10, no. 1 (1983): 71-85.
Architecture and Building
Irish, Sharon. Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1998.
Slaton, Amy E. Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Vleuten, Erik van der, Irene Anastasiadou, Vincent Lagendijk, and Frank Schipper. “Europe’s
System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity
and Rail Networks,” Contemporary European History 16, no. 3 (2007): 321-47.
Wermiel, Sara E. The fireproof building: technology and public safety in the nineteenth-century American city, Studies in industry and society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Williams, Rosalind H. ”The Big Dig,” Technology and Culture 47, no. 3 (2006): 707-711.
Art, Image-Making, Publishing and Advertising
Jones, Caroline A., Peter Louis Galison, and Amy E. Slaton. Picturing Science, Producing Art. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Laird, Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business And The Rise Of Consumer Marketing. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Laird, Pamela W. “Progress in Separate Spheres: Selling Nineteenth-Century Technologies,” Knowledge and Society 10 (1996): 19-49.
Olivier, Marc. “George Eastman’s Modern Stone-Age Family: Snapshot Photography and
the Brownie,” Technology and Culture 48, no. 1 (2007): 1-19.
Rothschild, Joan, and Alethea Cheng. Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Wosk, Julie. Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Computing and Telecommunications
Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000.
Haring, Kristen. “The “Freer Men” of Ham Radio: How a Technical Hobby Provided Social
and Spatial Distance,” Technology and Culture 44, no. 4 (2003): 734-61.
Lipartito, Kenneth. “When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone
Industry, 1890-1920,” American Historical Review 99, no. 4 (1994): 1074-111.
Mack, Pamela Etter. Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Martin, Michèle. “Hello, Central?” Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
Mullen, Megan Gwynne. The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution or Evolution? Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press 2003., 2003.
———. Television in the Multichannel Age: a Brief History of Cable Television. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Rakow, Lana F. Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (Illinois Studies in Communications): U. of Illinois Pr., 1992.
Electricity, Power, Water and Infrastructure
Coopersmith, Jonathan. The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Dawson, Virginia P. Lincoln Electric: a History. Cleveland, OH: Lincoln Electric Co., 1990.
Gibson, Jane Mork and Robert Wolterstorf. The Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bulletin, vol. 84, no-360-61. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988.
Hecht, Gabrielle. The Radiance Of France: Nuclear Power And National Identity After World War II. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1998.
Jellison, Katherine. Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963. U.
of North Carolina Pr., 1993.
Kranakis, Eda. Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.
Pritchard, Sara B. “Reconstructing the Rhone: The Cultural Politics of Nature and Nation
in Contemporary France, 1945-1997.” French Historical Studies 27, no. 4 (2004): 765-99.
Employment and Work
Anderson, Gregory. The White-Blouse Revolution: Female Office Workers since 1870. Manchester U. Pr., 1988.
Bix, Amy Sue. Inventing Ourselves Out Of Jobs?: America’s Debate Over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Fine, Lisa M. The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Green, Venus. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980: Duke University Press, 2001.
Hacker, Sally L. “Sex Stratification, Technology and Organizational Change: A Longitudinal Case Study of AT&T,” Social Problems 26, no. 5 (1979): 539-57.
Hausen, Karin. “Grösse Wäsche: Technischer Fortschritt Und Sozialer Wandel in Deutschland Vom 18. Bis Ins 20. Jahrhundert [Large Washes: Technical Progress and Social Change in Germany, 18th-20th Centuries],” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 13, no. 3 (1987): 273-303.
Kleinberg, Susan J. “Technology and Women’s Work: The Lives of Working Class Women in Pittsburgh, 1870-1900,” Labor History 17, no. 1 (1976): 58-72.
Laird, Pamela Walker. Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Mohun, Arwen. Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Parr, Joy. Disaggregating the Sexual Division of Labour: A Transatlantic Case Study. Kingston, Ont., Canada: Industrial Relations Centre Queen’s University, 1987.
———. A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
———. The Gender of Breadwinners : Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns 1880-1950. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
———. Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924. London and Montreal: Croom Helm and McGill Queen’s University Press, 1980.
Rotella, Elyce J. “The Transformation of the American Office: Changes in Employment and Technology,” Journal of Economic History 41, no. 1 (1981): 51-57.
Sassaman, Kenneth E. “Lithic Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor,” North American Archaeologist 13, no. 3 (1992): 249-62.
Zmroczek, Christine. “Dirty Linen: Women, Class, and Washing Machines, 1920s-1960s,” Women’s Studies International Forum 15, no. 2 (1992): 173-85.
Health and Medicine
Jacobson, Nora. Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-Made Breast. Rutgers U. Pr., 2000.
Maines, Rachel. Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
———. The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Mitchell, Lisa Meryn. Baby’s First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la. The Body Electric : How Strange Machines Built the Modern American, American history and culture. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Phillips, Janet, and Peter Phillips. “History from Below: Women’s Underwear and the Rise of Women’s Sport,” Journal of Popular Culture 27, no. 2 (1993): 129-48.
Rapp, Rayna. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Rothschild, Joan. The Dream of the Perfect Child. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Sauer, Beverly J. The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Household Technologies and Consumers
Bix, Amy Sue. “Equipped for Life: Gendered Technical Training and Consumerism in Home Economics, 1920-1980.” Technology and Culture 43, no. 4 (2002): 728-54.
Bose, Christine E., Philip L. Bereano, and Mary Malloy. “Household Technology and the Social Construction of Housework,” Technology and Culture 25, no. 1 (1984): 53-82.
Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic: Oxford U. Pr., 1990.
Brewer, Priscilla J. From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America: Syracuse U. Pr., 2000.
Candee, Richard M. “Domestic Industry in the Factory Age: Anglo-American Development of the “Family” Knitting Machine,” Textile History 29, no. 1 (1998): 62-92.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Goldstein, Carolyn M. “From Service to Sales: Home Economics in Light and Power, 1920-1940,” Technology and Culture 38, no. 1 (1997): 121-52.
Jensen, Joan M., and Mary Johnson. “What’s in a Butter Churn? Objects and Women’s Oral History,” Frontiers 7, no. 1 (1983): 103-08.
Kline, Ronald R. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
———. “Ideology and Social Surveys: Reinterpreting the Effects Of ‘Laborsaving’ Technology on American Farm Women,” Technology and Culture 38, no. 2 (1997): 355-85.
Loscalzo, Anita B. “The History of the Sewing Machine and Its Use in Quilting in the United States,” Uncoverings 26 (2005): 175-208.
Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. “Women, Technology, and Rural Life: Some Recent Literature,” Technology and Culture 38, no. 4 (1997): 942-53.
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: a History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
Zachmann, Karin. “A Socialist Consumption Junction: Debating the Mechanization of Housework in East Germany, 1956-1957.” Technology and Culture 43, no. 1 (2002): 73-99.
Werner, Françoise. “Du Menage a L’Art Menager: L’Evolution Du Travail Menager et son Echo dans la Presse Feminine Française de 1919 à 1939 [From Housekeeping to Domestic Art: the Evolution of Housework as seen by French Women's Periodicals, 1919-39],” Mouvement Social, no. 129 (1984): 61-87.
Williams, Rosalind H. Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Inventing and Patenting
Macdonald, Anne L. Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors Changed America: Ballantine Books, 1992.
MacLeod, Christine. Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
———. Inventing the Industrial Revolution : the English Patent System, 1660-1800. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
McGaw, Judith. “Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries,” Technology and Culture 38, no. 1 (1997): 214-31.
Pilato, Denise E. The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors. Praeger, 2000.
Stanley, Autumn. “The Champion of Women Inventors,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 8, no. 1 (1992): 22-26.
———. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
———. “Once and Future Power: Women as Inventors,” Women’s Studies International Forum 15, no. 2 (1992): 193-203.
———. Raising More Hell and Fewer Dahlias: the Public Life of Charlotte Smith (1840-1917). Bethlehem PA: Lehigh University Press, 2009 (forthcoming).
———. “Scribbling Women as Entrepreneurs: Kate Field (1838-96) and Charlotte Smith (1840-1917),” Business and Economic History 21 (1992): 74-83.
Manufacturing
Barber, E. J. W. Women’s work: the first 20,000 years: women, cloth, and society in early times. 1st. ed. New York: Norton, 1994.
Beaudry, Mary Carolyn. Findings: The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
———. Technology and Society in Ming China, (1368-1644). Washington, DC: Society for the History of Technology and the American Historical Association, 2000.
Cooper, Patricia A. “’What this Country Needs is a Good Five-Cent Cigar,’” Technology and Culture 29, no. 4 (1988): 779-807.
Eldredge, Elizabeth A. “Women in Production: the Economic Role of Women in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho,” Signs 16, no. 4 (1991): 707-31.
Field-Hendrey, Elizabeth. “The Role of Gender in Biased Technical Change: U.S. Manufacturing, 1850-1919.” Journal of Economic History 58, no. 4 (1998): 1090-109.
Freifeld, Mary. “Technological Change and the “Self-Acting” Mule: a Study of Skill and the Sexual Division of Labour,” Social History 11, no. 3 (1986): 319-43.
Gamber, Wendy. “’Reduced to Science’: Gender, Technology, and Power in the American Dressmaking Trade, 1860-1910,” Technology and Culture 36, no. 3 (1995): 455-82.
Graham, Margaret B. W. RCA And The Videodisc: The Business Of Research, Studies in economic history and policy. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Graham, Margaret B. W., and Bettye Hobbs Pruitt. R&D For Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Graham, Margaret B. W., and Alec T. Shuldiner. Corning And The Craft Of Innovation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hafter, Daryl M. European Women And Preindustrial Craft. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
———. Women At Work In Preindustrial France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2007.
Hagemann, Gro. “Teknologi, Industrialisering Og Kjonnsdeling Av Arbeidet: Enkelte Trekk Fra Klesproduksjonens Historie [Technology, Industrialization, and Sexual Division of Labor: Some Aspects of The History of Clothing Production],” Tidsskrift for Arbeiderbevegelsens Historie 10, no. 2 (1985): 115-27.
Jajesniak-Quast, Dagmara. “Soziale und Politische Konflikt der Stahlarbeiter von Nowa Huta Während der Sozialistischen Transformatio [Social and political conflicts of the Nowa Huta steelworkers during the socialist transformation],” Bohemia 42, no. 2 (2001): 244-68.
Irvin, Helen Deiss. “The Machine in Utopia: Shaker Women and Technology,” Women’s Studies International Quarterly 4, no. 3 (1981): 313-19.
Kidwell, Claudia B. Cutting a Fashionable Fit: Dressmakers’ Drafting Systems in the United States: Smithsonian Inst., 1979.
Kidwell, Claudia Brush, and Margaret C. S. Christman. Suiting Everyone: The Democratization of Clothing in America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.
McGaw, Judith. Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Parr, Joy. Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral and the Economic in the Postwar Years. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
———. These Goods are Canadian-Made: an Historian Thinks about Things: public lecture, November 25, 1998, University of Ottawa. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999.
Science
Bergland, Renée L. Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
Bix, Amy Sue. “Feminism where Men Predominate: the History of Women’s Science and Engineering Education at MIT.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 28, no. 1 (2000): 24-45.
Brady, Catherine. Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.
Dawson, Virginia P. Nature’s Enigma: The Problem of the Polyp in the Letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987.
Herzig, Rebecca M. Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Mack, Pamela Etter. From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Office of Policy and Plans NASA History Office, 1998.
Marcus, Alan I., and Amy Sue Bix. The Future is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America Since 1950. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2007.
Ochs, Kathleen Helen. The Failed Revolution in Applied Science: Studies of Industry by Members of the Royal Society of London, 1660-1688, 1981.
—-. “The Royal Society of London’s history of trades programme : an early episode in applied science.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 39, no. 2 (April 1985) p. 129-58.
Rossiter, Margaret W. Catching Up with the Vision: Essays on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the History of Science Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
———. Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
———. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Warner, Deborah. “Political Geodesy: the Army, the Air Force, and the World Geodetic System of 1960,” Annals of Science 59, no. 4 (2002): 363-89.
Warner, Deborah Jean. “How Sweet It Is: Sugar, Science, and the State ” Annals of Science 62, no. 2 (2007): 147-70.
Transportation and Flight
Anastasiadou, Irene. “Networks of Powers: Railway Visions in Inter-War Europe,” Journal of Transport History 28, no. 2 (2007): 172-91.
Dawson, Virginia P., and Mark D. Bowles. Taming liquid hydrogen: the Centaur upper stage rocket, 1958-2002. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Office Office of External Relations, 2004.
Dawson, Virginia P. Ideas into Hardware: a History of the Rocket Engine Test Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center. Cleveland, Ohio: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Glenn Research Center, 2004.
Dawson, Virginia P. Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion Technology. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Management Scientific and Technical Information Division: For sale by the Supt. of Docs. U.S. G.P.O., 1991.
Douglas, Deborah G. United States Women In Aviation, 1940-1985. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
Douglas, Deborah G., and Amy E. Foster. American Women and Flight since 1940. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Dunlavy, Colleen A. Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Inness, Sherrie A. “On The Road and in the Air: Gender and Technology in Girls’ Automobile And Airplane Serials, 1909-1932,” Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 2 (1996): 47-60.
Kline, Ronald, and Trevor Pinch. “Users As Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States,” Technology and Culture 37, no. 4 (1996): 763-95.
Light, Beth, and Joy Parr. Canadian Women on the Move, 1867-1920, Documents in Canadian women’s history ; v. 2. Toronto, Ont.: A Co-publication of New Hogtown Press and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1983.
Singer, Bayla. Like Sex with Gods: an Unorthodox History of Flying. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.