Taking the Wheel
The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Overcoming that stereotype was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education, yet their personal fe… Celý popis ↓
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Taking the Wheel
The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. 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. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent, and flighty to manage the fiery motored beast.
Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cultural, gender, and technological 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.
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- Výrobca
- University of New Mexico Press
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