Zach's Annotated Bibliography

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.

Owen, Maureen. “The Confession.” Ladies Start Your Engines. Ed. Elinor Nanuer. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996. In this poem, Owen expresses thoughts regarding women’s independence and autonomous ideals relating to women’s travels. The conceptions of women and how they are perceived by men are also examined in the text.

Pollock, Mordeca. The Women’s Movement. New York: Halsted Press, 1972. Each woman must come to terms with herself as a person. American society and social movements of women’s liberation are the main topics displayed in the text. Relevant to the topic is the historical treatment of women in juxtaposition to their changing role in today’s society.

Sahai, S.N. Women In Changing Society. Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1985. The text deals with all women in current society fighting the remnants of the older societal values. Also, the text explains women at their positions in general society. Relevant to my topic, is women’s constant struggle to function and survive in the world by today’s standards.

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