From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /

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The twenty-three distinguished writers included in From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines invite machines into their lives and onto the page. In every room and landscape these writers occupy, gadgets that both stir and stymie may be found: a Singer sewing machine, a stove, a gun, a vibr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Walls, Elizabeth MacLeod, 1974- (Editor ), Cognard-Black, Jennifer, 1969- (Editor ), Dyer, Joyce (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tools > Social aspects.
Technology and women.
Material culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
material culture (discipline)
Culture materielle.
Femmes et technologie.
Implements, utensils, etc. > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Hearth and Home; Norma Tilden
  • Maytag Washer, 1939; Joyce Dyer
  • My Mother's Singer; Psyche Williams-Forson
  • If You Can't Stand the Heat: Ruminations on the Stove from an African American Woman; Rebecca McClanahan
  • Sad-Iron, Glad-Iron; Joy Castro
  • Grip; Bedroom and Birthing Room; E.J. Levy
  • Of Vibrators; Jennifer Cognard-Black
  • The Hot Thing; Emily Rapp
  • Beautiful Monster: Life with a Prosthetic Limb; Monica Frantz
  • Midwife Hands, Mother Hands; Farm, Lawn, Hill, and Wood; Mary Swander
  • Tsantas and the Mind-Expanding Power of a Small Machine.
  • Mary Quade
  • Old Iron: A RestorationMaureen Stanton
  • All Flesh Is Grass; Karen Salyer McElmurray
  • Driven; Ana Maria Spagna
  • More Than Noise; Stage and World; Debra Marquart
  • The Microphone Erotic; Elizabeth MacLeod Walls
  • I, Phone; Melissa A. Goldthwaite
  • Body, Camera, Self; Diana Salman
  • Lebanese Airwaves; Monica Berlin
  • Remembered Is Misremembered, Then Turns; The Writer's Studio; Jen Hirt
  • Swingline Nine; Sue William Silverman
  • The Qwertyist; Karen Outen
  • On Typing and Salvation; Nikky Finney
  • Inquisitor and Insurgent: Black Woman with Pencil, Sharpened; Contributors.

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