Personal Stereo Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca
2017, 2017-09-07
eBook
'Object Lessons' is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it ...offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and anti-social - the quintessential accessory for the 'me' generation. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space.
Image Omitted In the past few years, the Georgetown University philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò has gained notice for his lucid, subtle writing on such subjects as identity politics, climate change, ...reparations, and more. Amplifying certain voices on the basis of group membership, he argued, could serve as a merely cosmetic change, leaving structural problems unaddressed. Elite Capture incorporates sociology, history, and folklore; Táíwò finds pertinent lessons in sources ranging from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” to the Cape Verdean independence movement. Every time I go to the fish market, I end up driving on what is now Black Lives Matter Plaza, and the mayoral administration that was responsible for that is also responsible for budget increases to metropolitan police departments, which is in direct contradiction to the stated aims of the most prominent Black identity struggle which is happening in the U.S. right now.
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Computer says not OK Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca
TLS, the Times Literary Supplement,
08/2022
6227
Book Review
Tuhus-Dubrow reviews two books on music band Radiohead by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, including Kid Mnesiac: A Book of Radiohead Artwork and Fear Stalks the Land: A Commonplace Book.
...essentialist feminism" stressed the differences between the sexes rather than their similarities, celebrating menstruation, childbirth, and other experiences unique to womanhood. ...Yet another ...new task awaits the ecologically minded mother." According to the only statistic she invokes - presumably the most impressive she could find - 20 percent of English babies "regularly or occasionally" sport cloth diapers. ...in turn, as people poured more energy into their own health, they had less time and inclination to invest in civic or political involvement. Since 1980 this outlook does not seem to have abated, to say the least, and for parents it applies doubly to their children. Warner and Druckerman marvel at the French government's support for families, whether by implementing a sliding price scale for high-quality daycare or furnishing monthly cash grants to parents.
Unsentimental Education Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca
The American scholar,
04/2021
Magazine Article
The repercussions of United States v. Dennett, in the end, would extend to the legal status of imported Japanese contraceptive devices and the fate of a modernist literary masterpiece-and far beyond. ...The local media couldn't get enough of the spectacle. "'soul love' defence of hartley dennett fails to move judge," blared The Boston Record. Without the power to determine how many children they would have, Sanger argued, working-class women were not only subject to the pain and risks of unceasing pregnancies but also forced to supply an overabundance of cheap labor to the capitalist system, keeping wages down. ...it was especially hard for the poor to find much-needed information.
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