Goldsmiths, University Of London

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• 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