The Canadian Committee on Women’s History is proud to announce its 2010 winners of the Hilda Neatby Prize. The winner of the best French-language academic article published in a Canadian or International journal or book during the period 2007-2009 and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women’s and gender history is Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert for her article « 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.