Gender and memory in the globital age. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anna Reading.
• Authors: Reading, Anna
• Contents: 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; Towards the€Globital: Globalisation Plus Digitisation. Globital Memory: ConceptGlobital 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; From Personal to€Public Memory; From Private Loss to€Public Memorial; Trajectories of€the€Globital Memory Baby. Conclusionschapter 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; 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 MemoryGendered 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; 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 MakingBegin 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.1; History; Collective memory -- Social aspects; Sex role; Feminism -- Social aspects; Globalization -- Social aspects; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Psychology; Collective memory; Technology -- Social aspects; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Literary Criticism -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Library & Information Science -- General; Social Science -- Feminism & Feminist Theory; Gender studies, gender groups; Literary studies: general; Literature: history & criticism; Feminism & feminist theory; Historiography; Sociology; Technology in literature; Feminist theory; History -- Historiography; Historiography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137352637; 1137352639
• Related ISBNs: 0230368646; 9780230368644
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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