Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies

by Paul R. Josephson

What do bananas, rocket ships, bicycles, and French fries have in common?

Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimination laws? What do simple decisions about where to build a road or whether to buy into the carbon economy have to do with Hurricane Katrina or the Fukushima nuclear disaster? How did massive flood control projects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421417839
• ISBN13: 9781421417837
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"