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BL
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892994
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Jungnickel, Katrina
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Bikes and bloomers : : Victorian women inventors and their extraordinary cycle wear /\ Kat Jungnickel.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Goldsmiths Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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xii, 323 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1906897751
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: 1912685434
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: 9781906897758
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: 9781912685431
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9781906897772
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9781906897789
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9781906897796
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.' --
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Cycling-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Women cyclists-- Clothing-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Women's clothing-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Cycling-- Social aspects.
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Damenmode
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Erfinderin
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Fahrrad
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Frau
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Frauenkleidung
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Gesellschaft
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Mode
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Radfahren
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Sportkleidung
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Cycling.
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Women's clothing.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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| Dewey Classification
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646.4/04
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| LC Classification
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GV1054.J86 2018
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