عنوان

Bikes and bloomers :

(Number (ISBN

1906897751

(Number (ISBN

1912685434

(Number (ISBN

9781906897758

(Number (ISBN

9781912685431

Erroneous ISBN

9781906897772

Erroneous ISBN

9781906897789

Erroneous ISBN

9781906897796

Title Proper

Bikes and bloomers :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Victorian women inventors and their extraordinary cycle wear /

First Statement of Responsibility

Kat Jungnickel.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Goldsmiths Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 323 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Acknowledgements; Part I : Introduction: Making, Wearing and Inventing Futures -- 1 : 'One Wants Nerves of Iron': Cycling in Victorian Britain. -- 2 : From the Victorian Lady to the Lady Cyclist -- 3 : Inventing Solutions to the 'Dress Problem' -- 4 : The 1890s Patenting Boom and the Cycle Craze -- 5 : Extraordinary Cycle Wear Patents -- 6 : Patent No. 17,145: Alice Bygrave and Her 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt' -- 7 : Patent No. 6794: Julia Gill and Her Convertible Cycling Semi- Skirt -- 8 : Patent No. 8766: Frances Henrietta Müller and Her Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit -- 9 : Patent No. 13,832: Mary and Sarah Pease and Their Convertible Cycling Skirt/ Cape -- 10 : Patent No. 9605: Mary Ward and Her 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 (for new or improvements to women's skirts for the purposes of cycling).

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'The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critcal technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives - cycle wear. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were wildly inappropriate, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling pedals. Yet wearing more identifiable 'rational' cycle wear could elicit verbal and sometimes physical abuse from parts of society threatened by newly mobile women. In response, pioneering women not only imagined, made and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to secretly switch ordinary clothing into cycle wear. This highly visual social history of women's cycle wear explores Victorian engineering, patent studies and radical feminist invention. Underpinned by three years of in-depth archival research and inventive practice, this new book by Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the lesser-known stories of six inventors and their unique contributions to cycling's past that continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.' --

International Standard Book Number

9781906897796

Cycling-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Women cyclists-- Clothing-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Women's clothing-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Cycling-- Social aspects.

Damenmode

Erfinderin

Fahrrad

Frau

Frauenkleidung

Gesellschaft

Mode

Radfahren

Sportkleidung

SPORTS & RECREATION-- Cycling.

Women's clothing.

Great Britain.

Großbritannien

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7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Jungnickel, Katrina

Date of Transaction

20200825042731.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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