Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
by Scharff, Virginia
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0029281350
- ISBN 13
- 9780029281352
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Free Press; Macmillan, 1991. Cloth, xi, 219 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The 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.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101880
- Title
- Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
- Author
- Scharff, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0029281350
- ISBN 13
- 9780029281352
- Publisher
- Free Press; Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Genre & Subject / Transportation;
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