Driving women : fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America / / Deborah Clarke
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| Autore: |
Clarke Deborah <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Driving women : fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America / / Deborah Clarke
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.509355 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Automobiles in literature | |
| American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| Automobiles - Social aspects - United States | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Driving women |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9179-5 |
| 1-4356-9222-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811529303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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