The typewriter denigrates yet empowers women

Male secretaries “invested so much pride in their laboriously trained handwriting.” (Kittler, 194)

Meanwhile, “the female clerk could all-too-easily degrade into a mere typewriter.” (Kittler, 194)

During war in Germany, typewriters were granted “temporary, civil-servant status that was immediately revoked upon marriage.” (Kittler, 195)

next