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The Body Electric

Name: The Body Electric
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780814719831
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780814719831

How Strange Machines Built the Modern American

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By Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 329

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The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and "radiomania," their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this belief's passions and products, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction1 The Machine-Built Body2 Measuring Mechanical Strength 3 Exploring Electric Limits 4 Powering the Intimate Body 5 "Radiomania" Limits the Energy Dream Conclusion: The End of an Era? NotesBibliographyIndex About the Author

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