Description
Book SynopsisMore than new chapters in automobile history, these stories locate women motorists within twentieth-century debates about class, gender, sexuality, race, and nation.
Trade ReviewThis is an extremely interesting book in that it provides the reader with a different perspective on the automobile age and what it meant to women as well as society as a whole... A must-have book for anyone interested in women's history. The photographs of various women traveling or involved in mechanical work are a great addition as well. It is a fascinating look at the way that cars freed many women and started us on the path to greater 'mechanical' equality with men. -- Marcia A. Lusted Academia 2008 Georgine Clarsen has produced a fascinating account of women motorists in the first three decades of the automobile age. Her crisp and elegant prose takes the reader on a speedy trip over a wide range of terrain, indicating the importance of the car in the cultural politics of the early 20th century. -- Sean O'Connell Reviews in History 2009 Presents an excellent case study of the ways in which new technologies take on gendered meanings in the process of their social integration... Highly readable book. -- Anne Clendinning American Historical Review 2009 For anyone wanting to fully understand early automotive history, this book is a necessary read. -- Dennis E. Horvath Cruise-in.com 2009 This study holds great value, helping readers to appreciate the rich history of women's involvement in things mechanical... Recommended. Choice 2009 Eat My Dust stands as an impressive account of women's engagement with numerous aspects of automobile culture and thus with the ways that technology shapes and is shaped by concerns of gender, race, and the body. -- Deborah Clarke Technology and Culture
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1. Movement in a Minor Key: Dilemmas of the Woman Motorist
2. A War Product: The British Motoring Girl and Her Garage
3. A Car Made by English Ladies for Others of Their Sex: The Feminist Factory and the Lady's Car
4. Transcontinental Travel: The Politics of Automobile Consumption in the United States
5. Campaigns on Wheels: American Automobiles and a Suffrage of Consumption
6. "The Woman Who Does": A Melbourne Women's Motor Garage
7. Driving Australian Modernity: Conquering Australia by Car
8. Machines as the Measure of Women: Cape-to-Cairo by Automobile
Conclusions
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
