From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /
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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East Lansing, Michigan :
Michigan State University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.