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Driving Women by Deborah Clarke

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Summary

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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Driving Women by Deborah Clarke

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.
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
Deborah Clarke is professor of English and women's studies at the Pennsylvania State University and author of Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner.
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ISBN 13 9780801886171
ISBN 10 0801886171
Title Driving Women
Author Deborah Clarke
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published 2007-06-10
Number of pages 226
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.