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Clarsen Georgine <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / / Georgine Clarsen |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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9780801884658 |
9781421405148 (e-book) |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Series ; ; v.126 |
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Soggetti |
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Nineteen twenties |
Women - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Feminism - History - 20th century |
Women consumers - History - 20th century |
Women automobile drivers - History - 20th century |
Automobile ownership - United States - History - 20th century |
Automobile ownership - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Automobile ownership - Australia - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile. |
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More than new chapters in automobile history, these stories locate women motorists within twentieth-century debates about class, gender, sexuality, race, and nation. |
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