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

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

Virginia Scharff

231 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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. Over...

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