Bikes and Bloomers Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

• Tác giả: Liberty Dent, Kat Jungnickel
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1912685431
• Thông tin xuất bản: Goldsmiths Press, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (336 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 376787
• Chủ đề: 1. ai; 2. engineering; 3. technology; 4. Fashion & textiles: design; 5. Gender studies, gender groups

Tóm tắt

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.