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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dyer, Joyce (Editor), Cognard-Black, Jennifer, 1969- (Editor), Walls, Elizabeth MacLeod, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Technology and women.
Material culture.
Tools > Social aspects.
Implements, utensils, etc. > Social aspects.
Machinery > Social aspects.
Femmes et technologie.
Culture matérielle.
Machines > Aspect social.
material culture (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > LGBTQ+ Studies > General.
Women.
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hearth and home. Maytag washer, 1939 / Norma Tilden
  • My mother's Singer / Joyce Dyer
  • If you can't stand the heat : ruminations on the stove from an African American woman / Psyche Williams-Forson
  • Sad-iron, glad-iron / Rebecca McClanahan
  • Grip / Joy Castro
  • Bedroom and birthing room. Of vibrators / E.J. Levy
  • The hot thing / Jennifer Cognard-Black
  • Beautiful monster : life with a prosthetic limb / Emily Rapp
  • Midwife hands, mother hands / Monica Frantz
  • Farm, lawn, hill, and wood. Tsantas and the mind-expanding power of a small machine / Mary Swander
  • Old iron : a restoration / Mary Quade
  • All flesh is grass / Maureen Stanton
  • Driven / Karen Salyer McElmurray
  • More than noise / Ana Maria Spagna
  • Stage and world. The microphone erotic / Debra Marquart
  • I, Phone / Elizabeth MacLeod Walls
  • Body, camera, self / Melissa A. Goldthwaite
  • Lebanese airwaves / Diana Salman
  • Remembered is misremembered, then turns / Monica Berlin
  • The writer's studio. Swingline nine / Jen Hirt
  • The qwertyist / Sue William Silverman
  • On typing and salvation / Karen Outen
  • Inquisitor and insurgent : Black woman with pencil, sharpened / Nikky Finney.

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