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The car is a tool women can use to attain their freedom. Historically, women have been stationary beings. They have either been waiting for marriage or they have been serving their "societal duty" as wives and mothers. They lacked true identity. Through the automobile women areable to free themselves from the bonds society puts upon them and eperience life. They control their own lives. | The car is a tool women can use to attain their freedom. Historically, women have been stationary beings. They have either been waiting for marriage or they have been serving their "societal duty" as wives and mothers. They lacked true identity. Through the automobile women areable to free themselves from the bonds society puts upon them and eperience life. They control their own lives. | ||
== Protection == | == Protection? == | ||
In "The Family Car" Culkin discusses how her father wanted a safe car for her to go from place to place. Culkin describes how her fathers plan of protecting her from the world did not work as the care gave her the confidence to venture in to it. Hence the car tears down the archaic view of the man as the "protector of woman", and allows women to assert themselves and live life. | |||
== Equality == | == Equality == | ||
In Culkin's work, she views the road and the car as an equalizer between men and women. The automobile and the road are not gender bias. They offer the same opportunities for both women and men. They empower males and females equally. | |||
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Revision as of 03:23, 7 December 2005
Kate Culkin's "The Family Car"
Kate Culkin’s work, “The Family Car” illustrates the sense of freedom a woman feels with her first car. Culkin looks at her own experience as well as her grandmother’s experience with the automobile. The story begins as Culkin describes the empowerment she feels behind the wheel of her car. She discusses how it frees her and givers her confidence. Through this new-found confidence she is able to face the world and experience it . Culkin then describes her grandmother’s experience with the automobile. Her grandmother loved her car and loved the sense of autonomy it gave her. However, when she got married she got rid of it and took the role society bestowed upon her. Culkin’s grandmother admires her granddaughter’s freedom through her car and urges her never to succumb to the same circumstances she did.
Kate Culkin: What the Automobile Represents to Women
Freedom
The car is a tool women can use to attain their freedom. Historically, women have been stationary beings. They have either been waiting for marriage or they have been serving their "societal duty" as wives and mothers. They lacked true identity. Through the automobile women areable to free themselves from the bonds society puts upon them and eperience life. They control their own lives.
Protection?
In "The Family Car" Culkin discusses how her father wanted a safe car for her to go from place to place. Culkin describes how her fathers plan of protecting her from the world did not work as the care gave her the confidence to venture in to it. Hence the car tears down the archaic view of the man as the "protector of woman", and allows women to assert themselves and live life.
Equality
In Culkin's work, she views the road and the car as an equalizer between men and women. The automobile and the road are not gender bias. They offer the same opportunities for both women and men. They empower males and females equally.
