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n o t e s Introduction 1. J. C. Horn, “It Says Here Wives Prefer Reading to Sex,” Psychology Today 12 (March 1979): 17; Jay Mancini and Dennis Orthner, “Recreational Sexuality Preferences among Middle-Class Husbands and Wives,” Journal of Sex Research 14, no. 2 (1978): 96–106. For more recent results, see At Our Leisure (Long Island City, NY: Alert Publications, 1992). 2. Christina Holmes, editorial, Sew Business, April 1979. 3. “Leisure Time Activities,” Gallup Opinion Index, report no. 146 (September 1977): 14–15. Oddly, a July 1991 study of leisure activities by the same organization does not so much as mention sewing or needlework. A Gallup Study on Leisure Activities (Princeton, NJ: Gallup, 1991). 4. This possibility is explored in Thorstein Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990). 5. Rosalynn Voaden, “All Girls Together: Community, Gender, and Vision at Helfta,” in Medieval Women in Their Communities, ed. D. Watt (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 76; Shulamith Shahar, The Fourth Estate (London: Methuen, 1983), 44. 6. There is a modern >ctional reference to nuns’ enjoyment of embroidery in Maura Laverty, Never No More (London: Longmans, Green, 1942), 164. Chapter 1 • What Is a Hedonizing Technology? 1. For the element of spiritual pleasure in such pastimes, see Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and “Women’s Work” (New York: Paulist Press, 1998). 2. Diane Schoemperlen, Our Lady of the Lost and Found (New York: Penguin, 2002), 319, 322. See also Elizabeth Berg The Art of Mending (New York: Ballantine, 2004), 14; and Amy Wilentz, Martyrs’ Crossing (New York: Ballantine, 2001), 106, in which the chief female protagonist irons her dead son’s clothes as part of the grief process. 3. Samuel C. Florman, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976), 127–52. There is another >ctional reference to this kind of hypnotic pleasure in crafts in Sue Grafton, S is for Silence (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2005), 54. 4. There is a humorous >ctional account of this feature of camping in Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Caravaners (1930; London: Virago, 1989), 144–58. 5. Mintel International Group, Ltd., Outdoor Barbecue—U.S. (London: Mintel, 2005); on Australians see Mark Thomson, Meat, Metal, & Fire (New York: HarperCollins, 1999). 6. John F. Kasson, Amusing the Millions (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978). 7. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother (New York: Basic Books, 1983), 149–50. See also a >ctional reference to this phenomenon in Anthony Trollope, Castle Richmond (1860; London: Penguin, 1993), 144. 8. Future Food Trends, marketing newsletter of Technomic, Inc. (December 2004); see also Jerry Adler et al., “Takeout Nation,” Newsweek 143, no. 6 (2004): 52. 9. Rachel Maines, Food Service and Retail (New York: Packaged Facts/MarketResearch .com, 2005). 10. Reese Jenkins, Images and Enterprise (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 115–20, 236–45. 11. There are exceptions; see, for example, Kenneth P. Czech, Snapshot (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1996); Robert C. May, The Lexington Camera Club, 1936–1972 (Lexington : University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1989); and Grace Seiberling and Carolyn Bloore, Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986). 12. Examples of this type of “mainstream” photographic history that focus on professionals include William Crawford, The Keepers of Light (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan , 1979); Jack Howard Roy Coote, The Illustrated History of Colour Photography (Surbiton, UK, 1993); and Elspeth Brown, The Corporate Eye (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). 13. Robert C. Post, High Performance (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). 14. Walter Vincenti, “The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear and the Northrop ‘Anomaly ’: Variation-Selection and the Shaping of Technology,” Technology and Culture 35, no. 1 (1994): 1–33. I am indebted to the late Marta Bohn-Meyer of NASA for the information on >xed gear in aerobatics. 15. Anne L. Macdonald, No Idle Hands (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988). 16. W. Outram Tristam, Herbert Railton, and Hugh Thomson, Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (London: Macmillan, 1893); Edmund Vale and Thomas Hasker, The MailCoach Men of the Late Eighteenth Century (London: Cassell, 1960); Anthony Burgess, Coaching Days of England (London: Elek, 1966); and Francis M. Ware, Driving (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903). See also William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes (1854; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 138. Anthony Trollope, an admirer of Thackeray , refers to coaching nostalgia in his Dr. Thorne (1858; Ware: Wordsworth Classics, 1994), 159–60. 17. James B. Twitchell and...

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