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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787472003321

Autore

Marks Patricia <1943->

Titolo

Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press / / Patricia Marks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

0-8131-5863-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

071/.3/082

Soggetti

Women - Press coverage - United States - History - 19th century

Women - Press coverage - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women's rights - United States - History - 19th century

Women's rights - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Feminism - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Queen Victoria's Granddaughter; 1. Women and Marriage: ""Running in Blinkers""; 2. Women's Work: More ""Bloomin' Bad Bizness""; 3. Women's Education: ""Maddest Folly Going""; 4. Women's Clubs: ""Girls Will Be Girls""; 5. Women's Fashions: The Shape of Things to Come; 6. Women's Athletics: A Bicycle Built for One; Conclusion: The New Woman; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The so-called ""New Woman"" -- that determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman,"" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving.Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880's and 1890's, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the