Taking the Wheel(English, Hardcover, Scharff Virginia)

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Taking the Wheel(English, Hardcover, Scharff Virginia) is written by Scharff Virginia and published by University of New Mexico Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0826313957 (ISBN 10) and 9780826313959 (ISBN 13).

The twentieth century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent and flighty to manage the fiery motorised beast. Overcoming the stereotypes was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education, yet their personal feats of driving in both war and peace demolished the gender barriers against their taking to the road. After women proved once and for all they could drive under the worst conditions in World War I, they adapted the automobile to their domestic roles in urban society during the 1920s. Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cultural, gender, and technological history.