Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
By: Scharff,VirginiaPrice: $13.95
University of New Mexico Press,1991.
The Twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of a women in society. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent, and flighty to manage a fiery motored beast. Overcoming the stereotype was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education. Paperback,212 pages.
