Machine generated contents note: ch. One Women Riders and the Invention of the Modern Bicycle -- ch. Two Popular Magazines and the Rise of the "Bicycle Girl" -- ch. Three Women's Written Instructions for Change -- ch. Four Women Bicyclists' Embodied Medical Authority
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