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UNINA9910450544303321 |
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Scharff Virginia |
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Twenty thousand roads [[electronic resource] ] : women, movement, and the West / / Virginia Scharff |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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9786612359668 |
0-520-93703-1 |
1-4175-2536-3 |
1-282-35966-5 |
1-59734-969-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Women pioneers - West (U.S.) |
Women - West (U.S.) |
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
Electronic books. |
West (U.S.) Biography |
West (U.S.) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-228) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: BEFORE THE WEST -- PART TWO: IN THE WEST -- PART THREE: BEYOND THE WEST -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX |
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From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history-our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West. Twenty Thousand Roads introduces a cast of women mapping the world on their own terms, often crossing |
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political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail. We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender, race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire, and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family life. This book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have shaped our past, present, and future. |
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UNINA9910456191503321 |
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Autore |
Elmer Greg <1967-> |
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Profiling machines : mapping the personal information economy / / Greg Elmer |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2004] |
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©2004 |
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0-262-27230-X |
1-4237-2537-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 pages) |
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Consumer profiling |
Privacy, Right of |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-168) and index. |
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The cultural and media studies perspectives on the technology of electronic consumer profiling.In this book Greg Elmer brings the |
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perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information. When we buy a book at Amazon.com or a kayak from L.L. Bean, our transactions are recorded, stored, and deployed to forecast our future behavior--thus we may receive solicitations to buy another book by the same author or the latest in kayaking gear. Elmer charts this process, explaining the technologies that make it possible and examining the social and political implications.Elmer begins by establishing a theoretical framework for his discussion, proposing a "diagrammatic approach" that draws on but questions Foucault's theory of surveillance. In the second part of the book, he presents the historical background of the technology of consumer profiling, including such pre-electronic tools as the census and the warranty card, and describes the software and technology in use today for demographic mapping. In the third part, he looks at two case studies--a marketing event sponsored by Molson that was held in the Canadian Arctic (contrasting the attendees and the indigenous inhabitants) and the use of "cookies" to collect personal information on the World Wide Web, which (along with other similar technologies) automate the process of information collection and cross-referencing. Elmer concludes by considering the politics of profiling, arguing that we must begin to question our everyday electronic routines. |
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