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Author:

Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Title:

Eat my dust : early women motorists / Georgine Clarsen.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 196 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 126th ser., 1

ISBN:

0801884659 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801884658 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007053001

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)