Review: Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities

Abstract

The increasing sophistication and prevalence of digital archives, alongside “archival turns” in a number of different disciplines, has meant increasing engagement with archives (digital and otherwise) in a variety of new ways. Most notably, this has meant significant interest in the archival field by digital humanists. However, archivists have been far less engaged in the other direction.1 The latest book in the University of Minnesota Press's Debates in the Digital Humanities series, Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, is a superb example of the former. The editors are Dr. Elizabeth M. Losh, associate professor of English and American studies at the College of William and Mary, whose work focuses on rhetoric, feminism, digital humanities, and electronic literature; and Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont, Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College Library and associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, who previously published on histories of media and technology and how they intersect and interact with archives and historiography.