Taking the Wheel - Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
by Scharff, Virginia
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0029281350
- ISBN 13
- 9780029281352
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NY: Free Press, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 219 pages. B&W photos. The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent, and flighty to manage the fiery motored beast. Overcoming that stereotype was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education, yet their personal feats of driving in both war and peace demolished the gender barriers against their taking the road. After women proved once and for all that they could drive under the worst conditions in World War I, they adapted the automobile to their domestic roles in urban society during the 1920s. Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cultural, gender, and technological history. Record # 600341
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Taking the Wheel - Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
- Author
- Scharff, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0029281350
- ISBN 13
- 9780029281352
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Women, , .
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