Its #AMA time #Skystorians! @jbrockmole.bsky.social , author of Pink Cars & Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way into the Driver's Seat through @hopkinspress.bsky.social is here to answer all your questions about the history of automobiles and the women who bought them!
I chatted with Steve Tarter on the Read Beat podcast. We talked about the Dodge La Femme and other automotive marketing gimmicks, fashion and annual model changes, and women in automotive journalism.
Listen here or wherever you enjoy your podcasts!
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My recent interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social was featured in this week's newsletter kicking off Women's History Month. If you haven't had a chance to listen yet, check out the newsletter for a roundup of new women's history books!
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@annehelen.bsky.social's newsletter has a great interview with @jbrockmole.bsky.social about her new book - Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way into the Driver's Seat.
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I'm glad you enjoyed and thank you for sharing! It was fun to compare newer ads (and @annehelen.bsky.social found some GREAT ones!) to the ones I spent so much time with while writing.
PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS is available now from @hopkinspress.bsky.social:
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I talked with @annehelen.bsky.social for Culture Study (are you subscribed yet?) about women's automobility, the impact of psychology on advertising, and how new car ads for women stack up against the kinds of ads I discuss in PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS!
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Listen on New Books Network, on Spotify, or your favorite source for podcasts!
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Recently I chatted about PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! We talk about the tension between the car industry and women through the 20th century and I share some of the fascinating things I learned while researching the book.
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Mother Dreyer's Potatoes have been enjoyed and appreciated in our house since you first shared the recipe. I had not before read your essay. Now I have something else to appreciate.
I adore the Indiana Dunes and enjoyed this history of the dunes themselves and of the parks!
This is marvelously cool!
These are stunning!
This is a standout quote from a thoughtful piece. Thank you for sharing!
The book "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks" by Jessica Brockmole on a brown leather car seat.
In "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks," @jbrockmole.bsky.social shares the untold history of women's relationship with automobiles: a journey marked by struggle, empowerment, and the relentless pursuit of independence.
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Thank you and happy birthday!
PINK CARS AND POCKET BOOKS by @jbrockmole.bsky.social from @hopkinspress.bsky.social is a fascinating history of women and their relationship with the automotive industry.
OUT NOW in Europe and available to buy from your favourite bookshop!
It’s publication day and I’m “tickled pink” to introduce the world to PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS. Thank you to the incredible team at Johns Hopkins University Press for bringing my history of women and wheels to shelves! @hopkinspress.bsky.social
It's almost release day for PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS!
My history of women, cars, and automotive marketing, out from @hopkinspress.bsky.social on Tuesday.
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PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS, a history of how the automotive industry and consumers battled to define what women wanted in a car, coming in January from @hopkinspress.bsky.social!
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PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS is the history of the automobile, of the women who bought and drove them, and of an auto industry that tried (and failed) to research and market to those female consumers. I can’t wait to share it with you!
I’m thrilled to announce that my first work of academic nonfiction, PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS: HOW AMERICAN WOMEN BOUGHT THEIR WAY INTO THE DRIVER’S SEAT, will be published next month from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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In the time since my last book, WOMAN ENTERS LEFT, came out, I’ve been on a different writing adventure. Eight years and a doctorate in history later, I have a new book to offer you, one that veers from fiction, but keeps the storytelling and the history you know and love from my novels.
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