Claiming the bicycle : women, rhetoric, and technology in nineteenth-century America

• Tác giả: Sarah Hallenbeck
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9780809334445 (paperback)
• ISBN: 9780809334452 (e-book)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 796.6082 Cycling and related activities
• Mô tả vật lý: xxviii, 205 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 282589
• Chủ đề: 1. Cycling--Social aspects--19th century--United States; 2. Cycling for women--History--19th century--United States; 3. Feminism--History--19th century--United States; 4. Rhetoric--Social aspects--19th century--United States; 5. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; 6. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; 7. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; 8. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"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.