Description
Book SynopsisBy 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.
Trade ReviewBy bringing her expertise in literature and women's studies to bear on automobility, Clarke adds to our understanding of both the lived and the imaginary potential of the automobile in women's lives. -- Kathleen Franz Technology and Culture 2008 Important work. -- Kris Lackey Studies in American Fiction 2008 Astute and thoroughly researched study. -- Laura L. Behling Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2008
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing and Automobility
1. Women on Wheels: "A threat at yesterday's order of things"
2. Modernism: Racing and Gendering Automobility
3. My Mother the Car? Auto Bodies and Maternity
4. Getaway Cars: Women's Road Trips
5. Mobile Homelessness: Cars and the Restructuring of Home
6. Automotive Citizenship: Car as Origin
Epilogue: Writing behind the Wheel
Notes
Works Cited
Index
