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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811529303321

Autore

Clarke Deborah <1956->

Titolo

Driving women : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.