Some Wheels of One's Own: Women Construct Nation, Modernity and Self

A multidisciplinary study of automobile technology in an international context, placing women at the centre. It examines the standard narratives of motoring as a technology of gender, and considers how the artefacts and practices of motoring have historically specific ideas of masculinity and femininity built into them. It explores the variety of ways women have resisted masculinist definitions of the technology and sought to claim it without needing to deny their female specificity. It repositions women as active agents, rather than passive beneficiaries, who help shape the emerging forms of the technology. The primary outcome will be a book manuscript for international publication.