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.
Recommended Citation
McFadden, K.(2018). Garagecraft: Tinkering In The American Garage. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5096