Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

by Kat Jungnickel

Book Overview

An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear.

The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives--cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912685434
• ISBN13: 9781912685431
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher