Hey, the Autumn/Winter 2025 issue of the Good Internet magazine is out?
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"The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and color our cultural understanding of typists’ labor.
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“It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use.” And many women did [.]"
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
#essay #writing #typewriter #literature #books #WomensHistory #history
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