Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Hearth and Home
Norma Tilden - Maytag Washer, 1939
Joyce Dyer - My Mother’s Singer
Psyche Williams-Forson - If You Can’t Stand the Heat: Ruminations on the Stove from an African American Woman
Rebecca McClanahan - Sad-Iron, Glad-Iron
Joy Castro - Grip
Bedroom and Birthing Room
E. J. Levy - Of Vibrators
Jennifer Cognard-Black - The Hot Thing
Emily Rapp - Beautiful Monster: Life with a Prosthetic Limb
Monica Frantz - Midwife Hands, Mother Hands
Farm, Lawn, Hill, and Wood
Mary Swander - Tsantas and the Mind-Expanding Power of a Small Machine
Mary Quade - Old Iron: A Restoration
Maureen Stanton - All Flesh Is Grass
Karen Salyer McElmurray - Driven
Ana Maria Spagna - More Than Noise
Stage and World
Debra Marquart - The Microphone Erotic
Elizabeth MacLeod Walls - I, Phone
Melissa A. Goldthwaite - Body, Camera, Self
Diana Salman - Lebanese Airwaves
Monica Berlin - Remembered Is Misremembered, Then Turns
The Writer's Studio
Jen Hirt - Swingline Nine
Sue William Silverman - The Qwertyist
Karen Outen - On Typing and Salvation
Nikky Finney - Inquisitor and Insurgent: Black Woman with Pencil, Sharpened
Contributors