Download or read book Women at the Wheel written by Katherine J. Parkin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women at the Wheel explores women's historical experience with automobiles. Katherine Parkin argues that in every regard, from learning to drive to repairing cars, from being a passenger to taking the wheel, women had a distinct experience with cars in American culture.
Download or read book Men Women and Vehicles written by David Bromige and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by David Bromige.
Download or read book The Woman and the Car written by Dorothy Levitt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invisible Women written by Caroline Criado Perez and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize A landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperback Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in the award-winning, #1 international bestseller Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Download or read book Taking the Wheel written by Virginia Scharff and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though millions of women drive regularly, the image of the flighty "woman driver" continues to stigmatize their abilities. Scharff travels back in time to explore how the first automobiles collided with cultural and sexual notions of feminine nature and how women have influenced the car industry as a whole.
Download or read book Why Do Men Love Their Cars and Drive the Hell Out of Their Women written by David Butler, II and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-02-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men simply love their cars! He spends time pampering her, washing and cleaning her, polishing her until she gleams and shines, and be the most attractive. Lots of hard work are put in to make her look good. He fusses over her and attends to her every complaint. He talks to her and pampers her by making sure she purrs along. He lavishes her with the best oil and decks her with the best fragrance. He dresses her up beautifully with the best cushion fabric or even leather. Every scratch and squeak, he will spare the time and money to rectify. He will give her expensive cosmetic surgery to enhance her with turbo, wings, stickers, sports wheels, rims, and expensive accessories. For her, only the best will do! If only men would treat their wives or girlfriends like they treat their cars, how wonderful that would be! So the question remains, "Why Do Men Love Their Cars and Drive The HELL Out of Their Women?" Well, it's because.....
Download or read book A Man His Car written by Matt Hranek and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Robb Report Best Coffee Table Book to Gift in 2020 A Sports Car News and InsideHook Best Coffee Table Book for Car Lovers Celebrate That Special Bond Between Men and Cars, and the Stories That Connect Them Discover actor and director Ed Burns talking about his 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, a model he’d been dreaming about since his days pumping gas. NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, whose favorite cars are trucks—he loves the wow factor of an International CV Series 6.6. Or Jay Leno on his 1955 Buick Roadmaster, big enough for him to sleep in while trying to make it as a comic. Filled with stunning photographs of the whole cars and of the exquisite details that make car lovers’ hearts beat just a little faster, as well as more than 80 personal stories, it’s a joy for every reader who knows that a car is never just a car.
Download or read book Men Women and Vehicles written by David Bromige and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richard Scarry s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go written by Richard Scarry and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate 50 years of planes, trains, and pickle cars with this anniversary edition of the beloved classic, complete with never-before-seen sketches! Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go celebrates 50 years in 2024! This humorous hardcover storybook introduces readers to a wide variety of wild and wacky Busytown vehicles. Plus, children can search each spread for friendly little Goldbug! This anniversary edition is the perfect gift for Richard Scarry fans—it features a removeable Cars and Trucks poster and never-before-seen original sketches!
Download or read book Driving Women written by Deborah Clarke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of self-expression. Driving Women examines the intersection of American fiction—primarily but not exclusively by women—and automobile culture. Deborah Clarke argues that issues critical to twentieth-century American society—technology, mobility, domesticity, and agency—are repeatedly articulated through women's relationships with cars. Women writers took surprisingly intense interest in car culture and its import for modern life, as the car, replete with material and symbolic meaning, recast literal and literary female power in the automotive age. Clarke draws on a wide range of literary works, both canonical and popular, to document women's fascination with cars from many perspectives: historical, psychological, economic, ethnic. Authors discussed include Wharton, Stein, Faulkner, O’Connor, Morrison, Erdrich, Mason, Kingsolver, Lopez, Kadohata, Smiley, Senna, Viramontes, Allison, and Silko. By investigating how cars can function as female space, reflect female identity, and reshape female agency, this engaging study opens up new angles from which to approach fiction by and about women and traces new directions in the intersection of literature, technology, and gender.
Download or read book Women Behind the Wheel written by Nancy A. Nichols and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had—and will continue to have—on the lives of women. Since their inception cars have defined American culture, but until quite recently car histories were largely written by and about men—with little attention given to the fascinating story of women and cars. In this engaging non-fiction narrative, Nancy A. Nichols, the daughter of a used car salesman, uses the cars her father sold and the ones her family drove to tell a larger story about how the car helped to define modern womanhood. From her sister’s classic Mustang to her mother’s Chevy Convertible to her own Honda minivan, Nichols tells a personal story in order to shed light on a universal one. Cars helped women secure the right to vote, changed the nature of romance, and influenced both fashion and child rearing customs. In the just over 100 years since their inception, cars have created possibilities for commerce and romance even as they exposed women to new kinds of danger. Women Behind the Wheel explores the uniquely gendered landscape of the automobile, detailing the many reasons why cars are both more expensive and more dangerous for women drivers. The automobile is on the cusp of momentous change. As we advance into the era of electric, connected, and autonomous vehicles, Nichols shows us why we should hit the brakes and look back in the rear-view mirror at this long and fascinating history. What is the role of the car in our lives? Should we be more skeptical of technology in our society? In Women Behind the Wheel, Nichols argues convincingly that only by understanding the many ways the car has changed us, can we hope to prepare ourselves for this brave new era.
Download or read book A Dad s Point of View written by Bruce Sallan and published by Bruce Sallan. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun, witty, and inspiring work offers advice, insight, and a reality check on family-related subjects as well as the bigger issues of life, morals, and faith. 264 pp.
Download or read book A Practical Man s Guide how To written by M. Tibbets and published by 1st Book Library. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide, similar to a car maintenance manual, on how to keep the woman in your life pleased, and your relationship running smoothly. No matter the make or model, or the length of time you drive a car, it will always need some basic regular maintenance to perform well. No matter if you and your woman are dating each other exclusively, have moved in together, or have married, the basic concepts included here should help in every stage of being together. It will help to answer the universal male cry, "What do women want?!?" And it should apply to most women. There are always some cars that are higher maintenance than others.
Download or read book Ladies on the Lot written by Helene M. Lawson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and lively ethnography of women who sell cars, sociologist Helene M. Lawson and the "ladies on the lot" take readers behind the scenes of one of the last bastions of a predominantly male workplace: the car dealership. Linking the women's own stories within the broader framework of gender and occupation, Lawson presents an engaging and important case study on the impact of gender differences and behavior in the workplace. In doing so, Ladies on the Lot makes an original contribution to the field and will be of interest for a wide variety of courses, including gender and occupations, the sociology of work, the sociology of women, and various courses in women's studies and qualitative methods.
Download or read book Everything Women Always Wanted to Know about Cars written by Lesley Hazleton and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I remember everything about the day I bought my first car. The pride, the awe at the financial responsibility, the way I stroked the paintwork...I loved that car with an intensity that still persists, years later. And even after all the fancy cars I've driven since then, if you gave me half a chance -- if they still made that car -- I'd buy it again." Lesley Hazleton remembers that day so clearly because while men take for granted the independence that cars bring, women do not. For women, a car means freedom. It means control over their own lives. It means, really, far more to women than it does for most men. Yet for years, automakers didn't consider women when they designed cars. As far as they were concerned, women were in the bleachers and men were in the grandstands. Not anymore. Lesley Hazleton talked to 150 women all over America to find out what they really thought about cars. What she discovered will make you laugh and it will make you think. This book is as much about the romance of owning a car (and romance inside a car) as it is about antilock brakes and air bags. More than a car manual (though it's filled with how-to advice on taking care of your car), it will enable you to negotiate for the best deal, teach you how to test-drive, help you decide whether to buy or lease, explain safety features and security issues, and guide you to know your car as much as you love it. With lively anecdotes, charts, and illustrations, Everything Women Always Wanted to Know About Cars, But Didn't Know Who to Ask is revealing, insightful, and extremely informative.
Download or read book Power Under Her Foot written by Chris Lezotte and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their introduction in 1964, American muscle cars have been closely associated with masculinity. In the 21st century, women have been a growing presence in the muscle car world, exhibiting classic cars at automotive events and rumbling to work in modern Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers. Informed by the experiences of 88 female auto enthusiasts, this book highlights women's admiration and passion for American muscle, and reveals how restoring, showing and driving classic and modern cars provides a means to challenge longstanding perceptions of women drivers and advance ideas of identity and gender equality.
Download or read book Men are Like Street Cars written by Graeme Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
