Caroline's Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Morris, Mary. Maiden Voyagers: Writings of Women Travelers. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
Mary Morris begins her work by discussing the role of women in travel. She outlines how women have changed through travel as well as how women’s literature has evolved due to travel. She argues that due to women’s new-found mobility, women have gained a greater sense of self and no longer need to fulfill the old roles given to them by society.
- Freidan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton Publishers Inc., 1963.
In Betty Freidan’s work, The Feminine Mystique, Freidan examines the roles of women in society and what they can do to change them. She outlines the feminist movements and looks at key figures within them. She writes of the voice within every woman to transcend the roles they were put in and become true beings.
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