Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert

Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert, « Québécoises et Ontariennes en voiture! L’expérience culturelle et spatiale de l’automobile au féminin (1910-1945) ». La Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, vol 63 nos. 2-3, automne 2009-hiver 2010.

Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert’s analysis of both perceptions and realities about female automobile drivers in Ontario and Quebec in the early to mid-twentieth century compels historians to think differently about the relationship between gender, technology, and consumption. The author identified more similarities than differences across the linguistic and cultural divide. She also provides convincing evidence that from the early years of the automobile many women, from various classes, enjoyed the opportunities for independence and speed provided by the new technology.