Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan
Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan's key text, Understanding Media: The…
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Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan
The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan's key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that "the medium is the message" for feminist ends. This volume showcases essays, experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars, artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology. They argue that while McLuhan's theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of race, gender, class, and sexuality.
Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan's discussion of transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan's concept of media as
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