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Claiming the bicycle : women, rhetoric, and technology in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Hallenbeck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hallenbeck, Sarah, author.
- Series:
- Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cycling for women--United States--History--19th century.
- Cycling for women.
- Feminism--United States--History--19th century.
- Feminism.
- Rhetoric--Social aspects.
- History.
- Rhetoric.
- Cycling--Social aspects.
- Cycling.
- United States.
- Cycling--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Claiming the Bicycle' considers how American women encouraged one another to adopt a new technology--the bicycle--adapt it to their own purposes, and use it to transform cultural assumptions about femininity and gender difference."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Women Riders and the Invention of the Modern Bicycle 33
- Chapter 2 Popular Magazines and the Rise of the "Bicycle Girl" 68
- Chapter 3 Women's Written Instructions for Change 101
- Chapter 4 Women Bicyclists' Embodied Medical Authority 132.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809334445
- 0809334445
- OCLC:
- 907161622
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