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Book Synopsis
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.

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By 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 Contents

List 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

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 June 2007
      ISBN-13 9780801885501
      978-0801885501
      ISBN-10 0801885507
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls History of engineering and technology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      By 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 Contents

      List 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

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