Claiming the bicycle [electronic resource] :women, rhetoric, and technology in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Hallenbeck.
By: Hallenbeck, Sarah [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780809334452; 0809334453.Subject(s): HISTORY / United States / 19th Century | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric | Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Cycling -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Cycling for women -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 796.6082 Online resources: Full text available: Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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