Driving women : fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America / Deborah Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Deborah, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Automobiles in literature.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Automobiles--Social aspects--United States.

Automobiles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By investigating how cars can function as female space, reflect female identity, and reshape female agency, this engaging study opens up new angles from which to approach fiction by and about women and traces new directions in the intersection of literature, technology, and gender.

Contents:

Women on wheels : "a threat at yesterday's order of things"

Modernism : racing and gendering automobility

My mother the car? Auto bodies and maternity

Getaway cars : women's road trips

Mobile homelessness : cars and the restructuring of home

Automotive citizenship : car as origin.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references ([205]-216) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9179-5

1-4356-9222-5

OCLC:

646769574