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Eat my dust : early women motorists

Title
Eat my dust : early women motorists / Georgine Clarsen.
Author
Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Description
xi, 196 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 126th ser., 1
Subject
  • Automobile ownership > Australia > History > 20th century
  • Automobile ownership > Great Britain > History > 20th century
  • Automobile ownership > United States > History > 20th century
  • Women automobile drivers > History > 20th century
  • Women consumers > History > 20th century
  • Feminism > History > 20th century
  • Women > Social life and customs > 20th century
  • Nineteen twenties
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.
Contents
Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.
Call Number
JFE 08-7933
ISBN
  • 9780801884658 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0801884659 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007053001
OCLC
186349404
Author
Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-
Title
Eat my dust : early women motorists / Georgine Clarsen.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Series
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 126th ser., 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.
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JFE 08-7933
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