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- catalog abstract ""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, Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12840542.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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, Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index.".
- catalog description "The machine-built body -- Measuring mechanical strength -- Exploring electric limits -- Powering the intimate body -- "Radiomania" limits the energy dream -- Conclusion: the end of an era?".
- catalog extent "xvi, 329 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0814719538 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "American history and culture (New York University Press)".
- catalog isPartOf "American history and culture".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New York University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "615.8/56 21".
- catalog subject "Electric Stimulation Therapy history.".
- catalog subject "Electrotherapeutics United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Electrotherapeutics United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Exercise Therapy history.".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine, 19th Cent.".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine, 20th Cent.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century".
- catalog subject "Medical instruments and apparatus United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Medical instruments and apparatus United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Quacks and quackery United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Quacks and quackery United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "R730 .P39 2003".
- catalog subject "WB 495 P397b 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "The machine-built body -- Measuring mechanical strength -- Exploring electric limits -- Powering the intimate body -- "Radiomania" limits the energy dream -- Conclusion: the end of an era?".
- catalog title "The body electric : how strange machines built the modern American / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".