Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / / Georgine Clarsen

• Autore: Clarsen Georgine <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 388.3/42082
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: More than new chapters in automobile history, these stories locate women motorists within twentieth-century debates about class, gender, sexuality, race, and nation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Eat My Dust
• ISBN: 9780801884658; 9781421405148 (e-book)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524667703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Series