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Joyce Dyer,Jennifer Cognard-Black,Elizabeth MacLeod Walls's From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines PDF

By Joyce Dyer,Jennifer Cognard-Black,Elizabeth MacLeod Walls

ISBN-10: 161186190X

ISBN-13: 9781611861907

The twenty-three extraordinary writers incorporated in From Curlers to Chainsaws: ladies and Their Machines invite machines into their lives and onto the web page. In each room and panorama those writers occupy, instruments that either stir and stymie might be discovered: a Singer stitching computer, a range, a gun, a vibrator, a prosthetic limb, a tractor, a circumvent Dart, a microphone, a phone, a stapler, a No. 1 pencil and, in fact, a curling iron and a chainsaw.

From Curlers to Chainsaws is a groundbreaking number of lyrical and illuminating essays concerning the severe, foolish, seductive, and infrequently sorrowful relationships among ladies and their machines. This assortment explores extensive items we occasionally take with no consideration, focusing not just on their features but additionally on their powers to notify identity.

For every one author, the equipment strikes past the practical to turn into a symbolic extension of the writer’s personal mind—altering and deepening every one woman’s proposal of herself.

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