[PDF] Wheels Of Her Own eBook

Author : Carla R. Lesh
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476652376

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Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them. Black, Indigenous, and White American women utilized the automobile to improve their quality of life and achieve greater freedom. These women shared unique concerns and common aims as they negotiated their way through a time when advocacy for social change was undergoing a resurgence. The years that brought the automobile to the United States, 1893-1929, also brought increased legal and social restrictions based on racism and gender stereotypes. For women the automobile was a useful tool as they worked to improve their quality of life. The automobile provided a means for Black, Indigenous, and White women to pull away from limitations and work toward greater freedom. Exploring these key issues and more, this book is a history and social exploration of women and the automobile during the early automotive era.

Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426328559

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Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement.

Author : Robert Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802777058

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Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Author : April Jones Prince
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618563074

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The weels push, race, stroll, fly, whiz, and spin all day long.

Author : Susan Steggall
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847807427

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A fantastic first concept book about colours, featuring 20 vehicles from bulldozers and trucks to tippers and diggers, and showing ten different colours. There's a wheel to turn on the final spread, where the child can match vehicles to colours, for extra interactive learning and fun. By the FL star of vehicles books and all things on wheels - Susan Steggall.

Author : Robert Jordan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1990-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312850093

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The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Author : Gelya Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520922358

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In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. By addressing the dynamics of power in ethnographic representation, Frank--anthropology's leading expert on life history and life story methods--lays the critical groundwork for a new genre, "cultural biography." Challenged to examine the cultural sources of her initial image of DeVries as limited and flawed, Frank discovers that DeVries is gutsy, buoyant, sexy--and definitely not a victim. While she analyzes the portrayal of women with disabilities in popular culture--from limbless circus performers to suicidal heroines on the TV news--Frank's encounters with DeVries lead her to come to terms with her own "invisible disabilities" motivating the study. Drawing on anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, law, and the history of medicine, Venus on Wheels is an intellectual tour de force.

Author : Amy Snyder
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1617495190

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Contestants have died, been maimed, and spiraled down into the nightmarish realm of madness. Half of them don't finish--in fact, only 200 racers have ever made it to the end. "Outside" magazine calls it "the toughest test of endurance in the world." RAAM (the Race Across America) is a bicycle race like no other. This epic race is the most brutal organized sporting event you've never heard of and one of the best-kept secrets in the sports world. Author Amy Snyder follows a handful of athletes before, during, and after the 2009 event, the closest and most controversial in history. "Hell on Two Wheels" is a thrilling and remarkably detailed account of their ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies. By experiencing the race from the perspective of the racers themselves, "Hell on Two Wheels" breaks new ground in helping us appreciate how such a grueling effort can be so cleansing and self-revelatory. This is more than just a race; it's a monster, a crucible, an unforgettable allegory about the human experience of pain and joy and self-discovery.

Author : Ken Ilgunas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 054402883X

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Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.