Annotated Bibliography

Baber, Kristine M. and Katherine R. Allen. Women and Families: Feminist Reconstructions. New York: The Guilford Press, 1992 Katherine R. Allen and Kristine M. Baber examine the role of women in families from a feminist point of view. This can be applied to the way women are perceived within Eudora Welty’s short story.

Clarke, Deborah. “Domesticating the Car: Women’s Road Trips.” Studies in American Fiction. 32.1 (2004): 101-128. Deborah Clarke examines the affects of travel on women as well as women’s literature. She asserts that since women have begun to travel, much has opened up for them socially as well as literarily. She argues that travel has not only opened women up to new experience and empowerment but also changed women’s literature through their new-found freedom.

Culkin, Kate. “The Family Car.” Ladies Start Your Engines. Ed. Elinor Nanuen. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1996. Kate Culkin’s short story “The Family Car” explores the road from a female perspective. Through Culkin’s vivid imagery and play off of societal stereotypes, she presents the road as a tool to empower women.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Power Trips and Other Journeys: Essays in Feminism as Civic Discourse. Madison: The University of Wisonsin Press, 1990. Elshtain discusses throughout these essays the power and the independence that women strive for and their relationship to the woman's life. Elshtain discusses the social experiences that women face, and how these experiences aid in their identity construction. This source will be used to contrast the powerful female and the traditional female characters in "In the Driver's Seat."

Harrs, Norma. "In the Driver's Seat." Ladies, Start Your Engines. Ed. Elinor Nanuen. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1996. The contrast between the "traditional" female character and the feminist character in the story will be examined by using this as a primary source. Travel and the automobile will be ananlyzed and how they aidin creating the feminist protagonist's independent nature.

Inness, Sherrie A. “On the Road and In the Air: Gender and Technology in Girls’ Automobile and Airplane Serials.” Journal of Popular Culture. 30 (1996): 47-60. Sherrie A. Inness explores the road as a domain made feminine by technology. She begins to due this by exploring history of women and the automobile. She concludes that through feminization of the automobile and mass media the automobile the road was opened up to women in America.

Mcalpin, Sara. “Family in Eudora Welty's fiction”. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) v. 18 (July 1982) p. 480-94 In this article, Mcalpin analyzes the structures of family in two of Eudora Welty’s works. Through this analysis, family roles, significantly the role of females, are seen and can be applied to another of Welty’s works: “One Writer’s Beginnings”.

McDowell, Linda. Gender, Identity, and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. McDowell examines the realtionship between gender and geography. She writes about the social construction of gender, what is associated with each sex, and how these perceptions have changed over time. McDowell examines how one's identity is influenced by place. This source will be used to show how feminism and movement are related as they pertain to the protagonist in "In the Driver's Seat."

Welty, Eudora. “One Writer’s Beginning”. Ladies Start Your Engines. Elinor Nanuen. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1996 In this short story, Eudora Welty depicts a family on a car trip. By means of a travel story, the passive role of the women in family circa 1917 is illustrated.

---

• Gender Minority