From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines

by Jen Hirt

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 vibrator, a prosthetic limb, a tractor, a Dodge Dart, a microphone, a smartphone, a stapler, a No. 1 pencil and, of course, a curling iron and a chainsaw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161186190X
• ISBN13: 9781611861907
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"