Gender and memory in the globital age / Anna Reading.
Reading, Anna, author.
2016
HM1033
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Title Gender and memory in the globital age / Anna Reading.
Author Reading, Anna, author.
ISBN 9781137352637 (electronic book)
1137352639 (electronic book)
0230368646
9780230368644
Imprint London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number HM1033
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.1
Summary This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital cultures are changing the gender of memory and memories of gender through a lively set of original case studies in the 'globital age'. The study analyses imaginaries of gender, memory and technology in utopian literature; it provides an examination of how foetal scanning alters the gendered memories of the human being. Reading draws on original research on women's use of mobile phones to capture and share personal and family memories as well as analysing changes to journalism and gendered memories, focusing on the mobile witnessing of terrorism and state terror. The book concludes with a critical reflection on Anna Reading's work as a playwright mobilising feminist memories as part of a digital theatre project 'Phenomenal Women with Fuel Theatre' which created live and digital memories of inspirational women. The book explains in depth Reading's original concept of digitised and globalised memory - 'globital memory' - and suggests how the scholar may use mobile methodologies to understand how memories travel and change in the globital age.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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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 andßTechnologies; Memory Technologies inßEarly Feminism; Memory Technologies inß20th-Century Feminism; Gender andßMemory Technologies inßMemory Studies; New Paradigms inßMemory Studies; Notes; chapter 3: Globital Memory; Movement andßFixity; Towards theßGlobital: 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 asßMethod; Gender, Memory andßtheßPress; Gender, Memory andßtheßScreen; Mobilising Feminist Memories; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Domains; chapter 5: Globital Body: Birth; Defining Obstetric Sonography; Gender andßSonography; Pre-Natal Erasure andßForgetting; From Personal toßPublic Memory; From Private Loss toßPublic Memorial; Trajectories ofßtheßGlobital 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 andßSocial Context ofßtheßMobile Phone; The Local andßtheßGlobal; Theories ofßGender andßMobile Phone Use; Gender, Memory andßtheßMobile Phone; The 2006 andß2014 Mobile Memory Studies; The Velocity ofßMobile Memories; Viscosity: TheßGendered Fixities ofßDigital Data; The (Trans)Modalities ofßGender.

The (Trans)medialities ofßGendered MemoryGendered Memory Extensities; Valency: Stick Women Together; Conclusion; Notes; chapter 7: Globital Publics: Death; Journalism andßMedia Witnessing; Mobile andßSocial Witnessing; Citizen Journalism andßGender; Mobile Witnessing andßGender; The White Everyman ofßtheß2005 London Bombings; Unveiling Muslim Memory: Neda Agha Soltan; Masculinity, theßMuslim Terrorist andßGenderßWars; From theßDiary toßtheßFeminine Twitter; Conclusion: Towards aßFeminist Witnessing; Notes; Part III: Actions; chapter 8: Globital Stories; Feminist Memory Works.

Feminist Memory MakingBegin Again; Conclusions: Gender andßMemory inßtheßGlobitalßAge; Note; chapter 9: Epilogue: Gender Recalled; Appendix; Letter toßMy Daughter by Anna Reading; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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