LEADER 02347nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910583580703321 005 20220715 035 $a(CKB)5360000000000998 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88723 035 $a(oapen)doab88723 035 $a(EXLCZ)995360000000000998 100 $a20202207d2008 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEat My Dust$eEarly Women Motorists 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 311 08$a1-4214-2771-0 330 $aThe 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 in their national and cultural context. As mechanics and taxi drivers-like Australian Alice Anderson and Brit Sheila O'Neil-and long-distance adventurers and political activists-like South Africans Margaret Belcher and Ellen Budgell and American suffragist Sara Bard Field-women sought to define the technology in their own terms and according to their own needs. They challenged traditional notions of femininity through their love of cars and proved they were articulate, confident, and mechanically savvy motorists in their own right.More than new chapters in automobile history, these stories locate women motorists within twentieth-century debates about class, gender, sexuality, race, and nation. 517 $aEat My Dust 606 $aHistory of engineering and technology$2bicssc 610 $aHistory of engineering & technology 615 7$aHistory of engineering and technology 700 $aClarsen$b Georgine$4auth$01300584 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583580703321 996 $aEat My Dust$93025585 997 $aUNINA