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From curlers to chainsaws : women and their machines

Title
From curlers to chainsaws : women and their machines / edited by Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls.
Publication
East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Dyer, Joyce
  • Cognard-Black, Jennifer, 1969-
  • Walls, Elizabeth MacLeod, 1974-
Description
xvii, 317 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Technology and women
  • Material culture
  • Tools > Social aspects
  • Implements, utensils, etc. > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Call Number
JFE 16-4679
ISBN
  • 9781611861907 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 161186190X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2015022376
OCLC
927382879
Title
From curlers to chainsaws : women and their machines / edited by Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls.
Publisher
East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Dyer, Joyce, editor.
Cognard-Black, Jennifer, 1969- editor.
Walls, Elizabeth MacLeod, 1974- editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-4679
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