Motor Girls
  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9781426326974
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00

Motor Girls

How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century

Buy from…
The Nile Mighty Ape BookHub Whitcoulls The Warehouse Paper Plus Fishpond
Find local retailers

Award-winning author/biographer and researcher extraordinaire Sue Macy takes a fresh and comprehensive look at the many ways women's relationship with the automobile changed history.

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.
  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9781426326974
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:
Share…

About the author

Sue Macy

SUE MACY is the author of FREEZE FRAME and SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, which received starred review from School Library Journal and Booklist. She lives in Englewood, NJ.

Also by Sue Macy

Breaking Through
Basketball Belles
Roller Derby Rivals
Trudy's Big Swim
Bull's Eye
Wheels Of Change
Bylines
See all

Praise for Motor Girls

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Wheels of Change
Amelia Bloomer SLJ 100 Most Magnificent Children's Books, 2011; Booklist's Top 10 Sports Books list; Eureka Gold award; Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People award; Starred Review SLJ
Bulls-Eye
Best Books, 2001 (School Library Journal); Notable Books for Children, 2002 (American Library Association);
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2002 (CBC and NCSS); Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, 2002 (University of Wisconsin); 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction (National Parenting Publications Association); Children's Literature Choice List, 2002 (Children's Literature)
Girls Got Game
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, 2002 (University of Wisconsin); Top 10 Sports Books for Youth (Booklist, September 1, 2001); Amelia Bloomer List, 2002 (Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table, ALA); Top 25 Books of 2001 (Peggy Sharp, Designs for Learning)