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Taking the wheel : women and the coming of the motor age / Virginia Scharff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.Description: xi, 219 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0029281350 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 20
LOC classification:
  • TL152.52 .S3 1991
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks TL152.52.S3 1991 1 Available 33710000090568

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-212) and index.

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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.