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| Women and Automobiles: Gendered Spatiality and Mobility in American Women's Travel Narratives |
| LIU Ying1 SUN Lu-yao2 |
| 1.2.School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China |
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Abstract As an intersection of body and technology and an integration of public and private space, automobiles make it possible for women to transgress the traditional gendered spatial boundaries. As automobiles define and shape American culture and America is a "nation on the wheel", automobiles have also entered into American women writers' sight and became an important window for them to view the relationships between modern technology, mobility and gendered space. American women's travel narratives throughout the 20th century have changed from speaking for elite women to being a voice for the working class women, and from rewriting canonical travel literature to producing road narratives. This shift indicates that on the one hand, women's mobility is influenced by multiple factors including modernization, class and ethnicity and on the other hand, that American women's writing has transcended the linear thinking about the relationship between automobiles and women's emancipation.
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