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From “Gender and Automobility: Selling Cars to American Women after the Second World War.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Walsh was one of the first scholars I encountered as I began my academic journey into the subject of women and cars. When I began my investigation close to home, I discovered a Walsh article \u2013 “Gender and the Automobile in the United States”<\/a> \u2013 on a major web-based project sponsored by the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the Henry Ford. Not only did this project provide a comprehensive look at the history of women\u2019s automobility, but included an extensive bibliography for individuals \u2013 like myself – interested in pursuing this subject matter further. As Walsh was a historian at the University of Nottingham at the time of this project, I was surprised to discover that the foremost authority on the history of women and automobility in America was, in fact, British. As it turns out, Walsh received both her master\u2019s and doctorate in the United States. So although she didn\u2019t grow up immersed in American car culture, Walsh\u2019s years in the US no doubt impressed upon her the historical and cultural significance of the automobile to American women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work for the University of Michigan-Dearborn project was Walsh\u2019s first foray into US women\u2019s automotive history. As she noted in an 2009 interview<\/a>, the project was an academic \u2018by chance\u2019 opportunity. While Walsh\u2019s academic background included extensive research into transportation history \u2013 particularly the intercity bus industry \u2013 she had not yet expanded her research to the automobile. This project provided her with the opportunity to engage in scholarship on a subject that was \u2013 at the time – virtually non-existent. Walsh gained a reputation as an expert in the field not only because of her work, but because she was one of the very who considered gender and the automobile to be a subject worthy of investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the success of this web-based project, Walsh went on to publish a number of articles devoted to the history of women and automobiles in the US. While she never published a book on the subject, Walsh\u2019s journal articles \u2013 which address women\u2019s automobile use in the post war era \u2013 are on the reading lists of every scholar with an interest in the relationship between women and cars. A dedicated and determined researcher, Walsh relied on both primary and secondary sources \u2013 printed material, advertisements, federal government documents, qualitative data, policy documents and reports \u2013 to construct fascinating histories of the woman driver during a particular era of American life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I am not a historian, but rather take a cultural studies approach to the women and car relationship, my work is often centered in the work of automotive historians who accumulated the materials and the knowledge to create a discipline. I am forever grateful to scholars such as Maggie Walsh who through their work, offer guidance on the journey into the rarely researched subject of women and cars.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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