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Author:

Hallenbeck, Sarah, author.

Title:

Claiming the bicycle : women, rhetoric, and technology in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Hallenbeck.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxviii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Cycling for women--United States--History--19th century.
Feminism--United States--History--19th century.
Cycling--History--United States--History--19th century.
Rhetoric--History--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.

Contents:

Regendering of the bicycle during the 1880s -- Women riders and the invention of the modern bicycle -- Popular magazines and the rise of the "bicycle girl" -- Women's written instructions for change -- Women bicyclists/ embodied medical authority -- Toward a technofeminist rhetorical agency.

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.

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

ISBN:

0809334445
9780809334445

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907161622

LCCN:

2015020845

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)