Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)

Synopsis

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.-- Regendering Of The Bicycle During The 1880s -- Women Riders And The Invention Of The Modern Bicycle -- R 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. Sarah Hallenbeck. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 183-196) And Index.