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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814334003321

Autore

Hallenbeck Sarah

Titolo

Claiming the bicycle : women, rhetoric, and technology in nineteenth-century America / / Sarah Hallenbeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, [Illinois] : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8093-3445-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

Classificazione

LAN015000SOC010000SOC028000HIS036040

Disciplina

796.6082

Soggetti

Cycling for women - United States - History - 19th century

Feminism - United States - History - 19th century

Cycling - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Rhetoric - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--