Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists
Georgine Clarsen
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Description for Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists
Hardback. More than new chapters in automobile history, these stories locate women motorists within twentieth-century debates about class, gender, sexuality, race, and nation. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 216 pages, 18, 16 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; 1KBB; 1MBF; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1; PDR; TBX; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
The history of the automobile would be incomplete without considering the influence of the car on the lives and careers of women in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. Illuminating the relationship between women and cars with case studies from across the globe, Eat My Dust challenges the received wisdom that men embraced automobile technology more naturally than did women. Georgine Clarsen highlights the personal stories of women from the United States, Britain, Australia, and colonial Africa from the early days of motoring until 1930. She notes the different ways in which these women embraced automobile technology ... Read more
The history of the automobile would be incomplete without considering the influence of the car on the lives and careers of women in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. Illuminating the relationship between women and cars with case studies from across the globe, Eat My Dust challenges the received wisdom that men embraced automobile technology more naturally than did women. Georgine Clarsen highlights the personal stories of women from the United States, Britain, Australia, and colonial Africa from the early days of motoring until 1930. She notes the different ways in which these women embraced automobile technology ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884658
SKU
V9780801884658
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-24
About Georgine Clarsen
Georgine Clarsen is a senior lecturer in the School of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong.
Reviews for Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists
This is an extremely interesting book in that it provides the reader with a different perspective on the automobile age and what it meant to women as well as society as a whole... A must-have book for anyone interested in women's history. The photographs of various women traveling or involved in mechanical work are a great addition as well. It ... Read more