Born to Take the Highway: Women, the Automobile, and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Pink power: The Barbie car and female automobility

“…The collected literature of Oldenziel (2001), Wajcman (1991), andWosk (2003), together with that of technology scholars Kathleen Franz (2005Franz ( , 2008, and Ruth Schwartz Cowan (1987Cowan ( , 2000Cowan ( , 2001, provides important insight into women's active interactions with technologies generally considered male. In some of my own writing (Lezotte 2013a(Lezotte , 2021, as well as that of American literature scholars Deborah Clarke (2007) and Deborah Paes de Barros (2004), representations of the woman driver in fiction, film, and popular music are called upon to demonstrate the significance of the automobile to women's lives in a series of geographical, personal, and spiritual locations. This assembled scholarship represents a concerted effort among feminist scholars to challenge and disrupt the deeply seated association between masculinity and automobility.…”