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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782603103321

Autore

Clarke Deborah <1956->

Titolo

Driving women [[electronic resource] ] : fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America / / Deborah Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8018-9179-5

1-4356-9222-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

813/.509355

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Automobiles in literature

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Automobiles - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.