Eat my dust
Subtitle: early women motorists
By: Georgine Clarsen.
Series: The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science -- 126th ser., 1
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780801884658
Subjects: Automobile ownership -- Australia -- History -- 20th century; Automobile ownership -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Automobile ownership -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women automobile drivers -- History -- 20th century; Women consumers -- History -- 20th century; Feminism -- History -- 20th century; Women -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Nineteen twenties
Description: Highlights the personal stories of women from the United States, Britain, Australia, and Colonial Africa from the early days of motoring until 1930.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist; title: A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage; title: A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car; title: Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States; title: Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption; title: "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage; title: Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car; title: Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.