Maytag washer, 1939 / My mother's Singer / If you can't stand the heat : ruminations on the stove from an African American woman / Sad-iron, glad-iron / Grip / Of vibrators / The hot thing / Beautiful monster : life with a prosthetic limb / Midwife hands, mother hands / Tsantas and the mind-expanding power of a small machine / Old iron : a restoration / All flesh is grass / Driven / More than noise / The microphone erotic / I, Phone / Body, camera, self / Lebanese airwaves / Remembered is misremembered, then turns / Swingline nine / The qwertyist / On typing and salvation / Inquisitor and insurgent : Black woman with pencil, sharpened / Norma Tilden -- Joyce Dyer -- Psyche Williams-Forson -- Rebecca McClanahan -- Joy Castro -- E.J. Levy -- Jennifer Cognard-Black -- Emily Rapp -- Monica Frantz -- Mary Swander -- Mary Quade -- Maureen Stanton -- Karen Salyer McElmurray -- Ana Maria Spagna -- Debra Marquart -- Elizabeth MacLeod Walls -- Melissa A. Goldthwaite -- Diana Salman -- Monica Berlin -- Jen Hirt -- Sue William Silverman -- Karen Outen -- Nikky Finney. Hearth and home. Bedroom and birthing room. Farm, lawn, hill, and wood. Stage and world. The writer's studio.
"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 vibrator, a prosthetic limb, a tractor, a Dodge Dart, a microphone, a smartphone, a stapler, a No. 1 pencil and, of course, a curling iron and a chainsaw. From Curlers to Chainsaws is a groundbreaking collection of lyrical and illuminating essays about the serious, silly, seductive, and sometimes sorrowful relationships between women and their machines. This collection explores in depth objects we sometimes take for granted, focusing not only on their functions but also on their powers to inform identity. For each writer, the device moves beyond the functional to become a symbolic extension of the writer's own mind--altering and deepening each woman's concept of herself"--Publisher's description.
English.
1609174771 9781609174774 9781628952490 1628952490
Technology and women. Material culture. Tools--Social aspects. Implements, utensils, etc.--Social aspects. Machinery--Social aspects. Femmes et technologie.