Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age by Scharff, Virginia
Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age by Scharff, Virginia

Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age

The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and...
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Author: Virginia Scharff
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Language: English
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Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age by Scharff, Virginia

Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age

$100.55
Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age by Scharff, Virginia

Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age

$100.55
Author: Virginia Scharff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: Virginia Scharff
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 07/01/1992
Pages: 231
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.09w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780826313959

About the Author
Scharff, Virginia: - Virginia Scharff is professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
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