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Record Nr.

UNINA9910725064103321

Autore

Jungnickel Katrina

Titolo

Bikes and Bloomers : Victorian women investors and their extraordinary cycle wear / / Katrina Jungnickel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Goldsmiths Press, , 2020

©2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 pages)

Disciplina

646.34

Soggetti

Women's clothing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part I; Introduction: Making, Wearing and Inventing Futures; Outline of the Book; 1 'One Wants Nerves of Iron': Cycling in Victorian Britain; Men, Cycling and Cycle Wear; The 'Dress Problem'; Why Study Clothing?; 2 From the Victorian Lady to the Lady Cyclist; The 'New Woman' and Changing Social Fabric; The Construction of the Lady Cyclist; The Physical Reality of Cycling in Ordinary Dress; The Social Dangers of Cycle Wear; Creating the Conditions for Invention. 3 Inventing Solutions to the 'Dress Problem'Bicycle Design Strategies; Cycle Wear Strategies; Rational Dress; Strategies of Concealment; Site-Specific Cycle Wear; Country-Specific Cycle Wear; Making (and Patenting) Your Own Cycle Wear; 4 The 1890s Patenting Boom and the Cycle Craze; Patent Reform and the Cycling Revolution; Women Inventors Fight to be Recognised; 5 Extraordinary Cycle Wear Patents; Themes in Patents; Device to Attach, Stiffen or Secure Skirt; Tailor Skirt to Fit Bike; Built-In Bifurcation; Bloomers, Breeches and Knickerbockers; Convertible Cycle Wear. Researching, Making and Wearing Convertible Cycle WearPart II; 6 Patent No. 17,145: Alice Bygrave and Her 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt'; The Inventor and Her Life; Commercialisation and Distribution; Interviewing the 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt'; 7 Patent No. 6794: Julia Gill and Her Convertible Cycling Semi- Skirt; The Inventor and Her Life; Ideas and Experimentation; New Cycle Wear Retail Experiences;



Interviewing Julia's Convertible Cycling Semi-Skirt; 8 Patent No. 8766: Frances Henrietta Müller and Her Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit; The Inventor and Her Life. The Gender Politics of PocketsInterviewing Henrietta's Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit; 9 Patent No. 13,832: Mary and Sarah Pease and Their Convertible Cycling Skirt/ Cape; The Inventors and Their Lives; Tactics for Site-Specific Concealment; Visual Culture of Women's Cycling; Interviewing the Pease Sisters' Convertible Skirt./ Cape; 10 Patent No. 9605: Mary Ward and Her Convertible 'Hyde Park Safety Skirt'; The Inventor and Her Life; Promenading in the Parks; Interviewing Mary's Convertible 'Hyde Park Safety Skirt'; Part III. Conclusion: The Politics of Patenting (or How to Change the World One Garment at a Time)British Cycle Wear Patents 1890-1900; Notes; Bibliography; Figures; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing "rational" cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, 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 transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women's rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the "Hyde Park Safety Skirt," which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling's past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910764588703321

Autore

Della Casa, Giovanni <1503-1556 >

Titolo

Corrispondenza con i legati al Concilio di Trento : 1544-1549 / Giovanni Della Casa ; edizione e commento a cura di Monica Marchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2020

ISBN

978-88-93594-48-6

Descrizione fisica

300 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

BIT&S : Biblioteca italiana testi e studi ; 16

Disciplina

856.4

Locazione

FGBC

FLFBC

Collocazione

XXI C 118

850.8 BITS 16

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Trascrizione del manoscritto Vaticano Latino 14830 conservato presso la Biblioteca apostolica vaticana