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Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
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Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age Paperback - 1992

by Virginia Scharff

Though millions of women drive regularly, the image of the flighty "woman driver" continues to stigmatize their abilities. Scharff travels back in time to explore how the first automobiles collided with cultural and sexual notions of feminine nature and how women have influenced the car industry as a whole.


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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.

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  • Title Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
  • Author Virginia Scharff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 231
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
  • Date 1992-07-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780826313959 / 0826313957
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.09 x 0.64 in (23.55 x 15.47 x 1.63 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women's studies - United States, Automobiles - Social aspects - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92015927
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.42
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