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

248 Pages·1992·14.624 MB·English

by  Virginia Scharff

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University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Scharff, Virginia
Taking the Wheel: women and the coming
of the motor age / Virginia Scharff.
SCM
Originally published: New York: Free Press, c1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8263-1395-7
1. Women automobile drivers—United States—History.
2. Automobiles—Social aspects—United States.
3. Women’s studies—United States.
I. Title.
TL152.52.53 1992
305.42—dc20 92-15927
CIP
Copyright © Virginia Scharff
All rights reserved.
This edition is reprinted by permission of
the Free Press, a division of Macmillan, Inc.
Second paperback printing, 1999
To Janet Simon Scharff