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Taking the wheel : women and the coming of the motor age

Title
Taking the wheel : women and the coming of the motor age / Virginia Scharff.
Author
Scharff, Virginia.
Publication
New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1991.

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Description
xi, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Women automobile drivers > History
  • Automobiles > Social aspects
  • Women's studies
  • women's studies
  • Women automobile drivers
  • Kraftfahrerin
  • Kraftfahrzeug
  • Frau
  • Autogebruik
  • Vrouwen
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-212) and index.
Contents
Lady and the mechanic -- From passenger to driver -- Femininity and the electric car -- Power and comfort -- Spectacle and emancipation -- Women drivers in World War I -- Corporate masculinity and the "feminine" market -- Women at the wheel in the 1920s -- Reinventing the wheel.
ISBN
  • 0029281350
  • 9780029281352
LCCN
90049507
OCLC
  • ocm22494087
  • 22494087
  • SCSB-1907492
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library