Machine

Bodies, Genders, Technologies

edited by Michaela Hampf and MaryAnn Snyder-Korber

Book cover: Machine

Extent: 270 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 223

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2012)

ISBN: 9783825360245

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $55.00

In stock

Women’s work. Manning the machine. Bodies electric in an age of the mechanical. Such phrases highlight a crosshatched network of meaning-making in modernity. Technological developments in the concrete sense of devices and operations intersect with longer-standing conceptual architectures. The essay collection Machine: Bodies, Genders, Technologies explores key interstices of this evolving techno-cultural imagery through interdisciplinary dialogue. Literary and historical perspectives within American Studies are brought into conversation with Film, Gender, Media, and Transnational Studies. Contributions consider politics of the body from radical self-fashioning to infections of the body politic, the interrelation of gender and technology from the factory floor to the film screen, and imaginations of the technological between the mechanic and the machinic from nineteenth-century electroshocks to millennial avant-gardes.

  • Edited by M Michaela Hampf
  • Edited by MaryAnn Snyder-Korber