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Zusatztext "Macy’s lively writing and vivid descriptions of treacherous roads conditions become all the more fascinating when combined with the crisp archival photos! car advertisements! news stories! and quotations embellishing each chapter... Steer any reader with an interest in history towards this fantastic book." -- Booklist Starred Review "This meticulously researched account of early automobiles and women is an excellent companion to Macy’s previous title Wheels of Change... This insight into women automobile pioneers is well worth it. Highly recommended for tween and teen history collections." -- School Library Journal Starred Review "Using the lens of automotive history to inform a greater narrative about women's liberation! Macy capably shows how threads of the past are intertwined." -- Publisher's Weekly "Macy wheels out another significant and seldom explored chapter in women's history." -- Kirkus "Macy handily contextualizes women’s embrace of driving within the larger framework of world war and the suffrage movement...a spunky title with appeal for report writers." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books . Informationen zum Autor Sue Macy Klappentext Come along for a joy ride in this enthralling tribute to the daring women - Motor Girls, as they were called at the turn of the century - who got behind the wheel of the first cars and paved the way for change. The automobile has always symbolized freedom, and in this book we meet the first generation of female motorists who drove cars for fun, profit, and to make a statement about the evolving role of women. From the advent of the auto in the 1890s to the 1920s when the breaking down of barriers for women was in full swing, readers will be delighted to see historical photos, art, and artifacts and to discover the many ways these progressive females influenced fashion, the economy, politics, and the world around them. Zusammenfassung Come along for a joy ride in this enthralling tribute to the daring women – Motor Girls! as they were called at the turn of the century – who got behind the wheel of the first cars and paved the way for change. The automobile has always symbolized freedom! and in this book we meet the first generation of female motorists who drove cars for fun! profit! and to make a statement about the evolving role of women. From the advent of the auto in the 1890s to the 1920s when the breaking down of barriers for women was in full swing! readers will be delighted to see historical photos! art! and artifacts and to discover the many ways these progressive females influenced fashion! the economy! politics! and the world around them. ...
