ISBN:
9780230368644
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (248 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Reading, Anna Gender and Memory in the Globital Age
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
History
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Historiography
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Technology in literature
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Humanities Digital libraries
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Feminist theory
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Sociology
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Sex (Psychology)
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Gender expression
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Gender identity
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Dedication -- Preface: The Feminist Mnemologist -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- chapter 1: Introduction -- Book Rationale -- Book Scope -- Research Methods -- Book Content -- Part I: Concepts -- Part II: Domains -- Part III: Actions -- Key Terms -- Part I: Concepts -- chapter 2: Gender, Memory and Technologies -- Memory Technologies in Early Feminism -- Memory Technologies in 20th-Century Feminism -- Gender and Memory Technologies in Memory Studies -- New Paradigms in Memory Studies -- Notes -- chapter 3: Globital Memory -- Movement and Fixity
Abstract:
Towards the Globital: Globalisation Plus Digitisation -- Globital Memory: Concept -- Globital Memory: Method -- (Trans)Mediality -- (Trans)Modality -- Extensity -- Velocity -- Valency -- Viscosity -- Notes -- chapter 4: Globital Utopias: Imaginaries of Gender, Memory and New Technologies -- Utopia as Method -- Gender, Memory and the Press -- Gender, Memory and the Screen -- Mobilising Feminist Memories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Domains -- chapter 5: Globital Body: Birth -- Defining Obstetric Sonography -- Gender and Sonography -- Pre-Natal Erasure and Forgetting
Abstract:
From Personal to Public Memory -- From Private Loss to Public Memorial -- Trajectories of the Globital Memory Baby -- Conclusions -- chapter 6: Globital Home: Life -- In William Shakespeare's Othello, Iago declares, 'I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.' In one of the interviews I conducted for this book, a young woman declared that her favourite memory on her mobi -- Historical and Social Context of the Mobile Phone -- The Local and the Global -- Theories of Gender and Mobile Phone Use -- Gender, Memory and the Mobile Phone
Abstract:
The 2006 and 2014 Mobile Memory Studies -- The Velocity of Mobile Memories -- Viscosity: The Gendered Fixities of Digital Data -- The (Trans)Modalities of Gender -- The (Trans)medialities of Gendered Memory -- Gendered Memory Extensities -- Valency: Stick Women Together -- Conclusion -- Notes -- chapter 7: Globital Publics: Death -- Journalism and Media Witnessing -- Mobile and Social Witnessing -- Citizen Journalism and Gender -- Mobile Witnessing and Gender -- The White Everyman of the 2005 London Bombings -- Unveiling Muslim Memory: Neda Agha Soltan
Abstract:
Masculinity, the Muslim Terrorist and Gender Wars -- From the Diary to the Feminine Twitter -- Conclusion: Towards a Feminist Witnessing -- Notes -- Part III: Actions -- chapter 8: Globital Stories -- Feminist Memory Works -- Feminist Memory Making -- Begin Again -- Conclusions: Gender and Memory in the Globital Age -- Note -- chapter 9: Epilogue: Gender Recalled -- Appendix -- Letter to My Daughter by Anna Reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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