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Jungnickel, Katrina.
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Women cyclists -- Clothing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women's clothing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Cycling -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Jungnickel, Katrina.
Women cyclists -- Clothing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women's clothing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Cycling -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
MARC Display
Bikes
and
bloomers
:
Victorian
women
inventors
and
their
extraordinary
cycle
wear
/ Kat Jungnickel.
by
Jungnickel, Katrina.
Goldsmiths Press, 2018.
Call #:
646.404 J95b
Subjects
Women
cyclists -- Clothing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women
's clothing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Cycling -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781906897758 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Victorian
women
inventors
and
their
extraordinary
cycle
wear
Description:
xii, 323 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The bicycle in
Victorian
Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of
women
's liberation. But much less is known about another critcal 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 wildly inappropriate, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling pedals. Yet wearing more identifiable 'rational'
cycle
wear
could elicit verbal and sometimes physical abuse from parts of society threatened by newly mobile
women
. In response, pioneering
women
not only imagined, made and wore radical new forms of
cycle
wear
but also patented
their
inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to secretly switch ordinary clothing into
cycle
wear
. This highly visual social history of
women
's
cycle
wear
explores
Victorian
engineering, patent studies and radical feminist invention. Underpinned by three years of in-depth archival research and inventive practice, this new book by Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the lesser-known stories of six
inventors
and
their
unique contributions to cycling's past that continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile
women
."--From publisher.
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