Hands

Zandy takes her subject-the living, writing, and teaching of the American working-class experience-deeply into a regrettably obscure area of cultural studies, one which she is eminently able to treat.

~Martha Banta, author of Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct

Janet Zandy's Hands puts critical studies of the human body into creative synergy with the so-far understudied but crucial topic of class. Hands provides the critical paradigm and reading list for the mind-body connection in American literature. Its graceful prose is energized by the author's bone-deep knowledge of the angles of vision of the this nation's working class.

~Cecelia Tichi, author of Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000

This is an important, original, unsettling book. Nobody writes with more analytic passion about working life than Janet Zandy.

~Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work