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

By Virginia Scharff

Book Overview

Though millions of women drive regularly, the image of the flighty woman driver continues to stigmatize their abilities. Scharff travels back in time to explore how the first automobiles collided with cultural and sexual notions of feminine nature and how women have influenced the car industry as a whole.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029281350
• ISBN13: 9780029281352
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Free Pr
• Length: 8 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.