Bikes and Bloomers Victorian women investors and their extraordinary cycle wear
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...
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Cambridge, MA :
Goldsmiths Press
2020.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009748229606719 |
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- 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.
