books of possible interest

[Dave Monroe]

Well worth looking into.  See also, e.g. ...

Armstrong, Tim.  Modernism, Technology and the Body.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.

"This book is a study of the relations between the
body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong
traces the links among modernist literary texts and
medical, psychological and social theory across a
range of writers. Armstrong shows how modernists
subjected the body to new modes of production,
representation and commodification as they attempted
to render it part of modernity. Drawing on a wide
range of disciplines, Armstrong challenges the
received oppositions between technology and literature
by demonstrating the complex interconnections between
these domains."

Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Regulation of Energies: 1. Electrifying
the body
2. Waste products
Part II. Reshaping the Body: 3. Prosthetic modernism
4. Auto-facial construction
Part III. Technologies of Gender: 5. Seminal Economies
6. Making a woman
Part IV. Interruption and Suture: 7. Distracted
writing
8. Film finds a tongue.

http://www.cup.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521590043

http://www.cup.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521599970

GR mentioned @ p. 39, but applicable well beyond. Will
be posting therefrom soon as I get some quality time
...

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>  
> Reviewed for H-Women by Kirsty Robertson
>     Julie Wosk.  _Women and the Machine:
> Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the
> Electronic Age_.  Baltimore and London:    Johns
> Hopkins University Press, 2001.  320 pp.  $39.95
> (cloth),    ISBN 0-8018-6607-3.
> http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=206581028317130

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