Bikes and Bloomers Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

By:

Jungnickel, Kat [auth]

Contributor(s):

Dent, Liberty [auth]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Goldsmiths Press 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (336 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781912685431

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Summary: The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives - cycle wear. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were vastly inappropriate, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing more identifiable 'rational' cycle wear could elicit verbal and sometimes physical abuse from parts of society threatened by newly mobile women.

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The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives - cycle wear. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were vastly inappropriate, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing more identifiable 'rational' cycle wear could elicit verbal and sometimes physical abuse from parts of society threatened by newly mobile women.