Gender and Memory in the Globital Age

by Anna Reading

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230368644
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/09/2016
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anna Reading is Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, Kings College, University of London, UK and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her books include Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism (1992) The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust (2002); Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media (2008) with Colin Sparks and is co-editor of The Media in Britain (1999) Save As….Digital Memories (2009) and Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggle (2015). She is a playwright with seven plays performed internationally.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- PART ONE: Concepts.- 1.Gender, Memory and Technologies.- 2.Globital Memory.- 3.Globital Utopias. Imaginaries of Gender, Memory and Technologies.- PART TWO: Domains.- 4. Globital Body: Birth.- 5.Globital Home: Life.- 6.Globital Publics: Death.- PART THREE: Actions.- 7.Globital Stories.- 8.Epilogue: Gender Recalled

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From the Publisher

“The path breaking trans-disciplinary academic study of memory introduces how the dual forces of digitization and globalization might transform gender and gendered memories through and with mobile and social technologies. Anna Reading‘s timely account of how mediated memories produced and recorded by mobile phone, social media, medical imaging, the internet and digital archive are rearticulating gender and the gendering of memory in previously unexplored new ways.” (Andrea Pető, Professor, Central European University, Budapest)