Taking the Wheel

Author: Virginia Scharff
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0826313957

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

The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Get Taking the Wheel computer books for free.
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 their taking the road. 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. Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cu Check Taking the Wheel our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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