Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
History
First Advisor
Joseph November
Abstract
The American garage, whether in the home or larger, communal ventures, has been a site of technological crafting for a variety of people across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The garage has been a space in which to both reaffirm the status quo of masculinity, and to discover feminist modes of self sufficiency. It has provided a place to play, experiment, commercialize technology, while also providing a space to create new identities and communal standards. What we make and how we make it is, in the end, more about crafting ourselves than crafting objects.
Rights
© 2018, Katherine Erica McFadden
Recommended Citation
McFadden, K.(2018). Garagecraft: Tinkering In The American Garage. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5096