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

ISBN: 0826313957

ISBN13: 9780826313959

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

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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...

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