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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9781948062527
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Bicycling for Ladies : the Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publisher
- Apollo Publishers
- Genre
- Transportation, Health & Fitness, Sports & Recreation, Humor
- Topic
- Cycling, Women's Health, Bicycles, General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Bicycling for Ladies is the trailblazing book that introduced women to bicycling and shocked a Victorian culture on its release in 1896. Today it remains comprehensive and useful, but also celebrates women's advancement in the sport and offers an inspiring, and amusing, look back. Maria E. Ward let the social norms and gendered expectations of the nineteenth century eat her dust when she wrote the groundbreaking guide to bicycling for women. In chapters such as Women and Tools, Dress, and How to Make Progress, Ward explains the function of wheels, gears, and spokes, gives instruction on how to safely and efficiently ride, and discusses optimal attire (layers and a stretchy corset, of course). Ward's detailed mechanical and physical instruction, paired with helpful images and charts, makes daunting ordeals like hill climbing, navigating traffic, and bike maintenance a breeze. In modern times, when so much is outsourced, automated, and unreliable, Ward's approach to transportation is refreshing. But while bicycling is rich with health and environmental benefits, male bicyclists still outnumber female riders, most competitive cyclists are male, and women are more likely to report feeling unsafe on a bike. Ward's text gives women the tools they need to claim their stake of the road. For seasoned cyclists or those just starting out, it is a timeless and relevant directive--ideal for today's woman who's ready to take the world by the handlebars. The photos and instructional images throughout Bicycling for Ladies are the result of a collaboration between Ward and Alice Austin, one of America's earliest and most prolific professional female photographers. The volume has an elegant new design and is small enough to ride with.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Apollo Publishers
ISBN-10
1948062526
ISBN-13
9781948062527
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038714458
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bicycling for Ladies : the Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Cycling, Women's Health, Bicycles, General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Transportation, Health & Fitness, Sports & Recreation, Humor
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Width
5in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv1057
Reviews
"Bicycling by young women has helped more than any other medium to swell the ranks of reckless girls, who finally drift into the army of outcast women of the United States." -- Women's Rescue League, 1891 "I think the most vicious thing I ever saw in all my life is a woman on a bicycle-and Washington is full of them. I had thought that cigarette smoking was the worst thing a woman could do, but I have changed my mind." -- The Sunday Herald, 1891 "Over-exertion, the upright position on the wheel, and the unconscious effort to maintain one's balance tend to produce a wearied and exhausted 'bicycle face.'" -- The Literary Digest, 1895 "Have you ever seen anything more off-putting, uglier, meaner than a wench on a bike, wheezing, her face red like a turkey, her eyes reddened by the dust? What a horror!" -- Youth, 1897 "Don't cultivate a bicycle face." --New York World, 1895 "Female bicycling must be sharply looked after and care exercised in its indulgence... bicycling is a leading factor in disturbances of nutrition, in neurasthenia, hysteria, chlorosis, dyspepsia, chronic constipation, anemic amenorrhoea, and nervous dysmenorrhoea." --The Medical Age, November, 1897 " It is a fact that so called bicycle schools do tend to foster immorality to individual members of the sex. " --The Medical Age, January, 1897
Table of Content
Preface Foreword by Victoria Munro, Executive Director, Alice Austen House Foreword by Maxine Friedman, Chief Curator, Historic Richmond Town Preface by Maria Ward 1. Possibilities2. What the Bicycle Does3. On Wheels in General and Bicycles in Particular4. For Beginners5. How to Make Progress6. Helping and Teaching; What to Learn7. A Few Things to Remember8. The Art of Wheeling a Bicycle9. Position and Power10. Difficulties to Overcome11. Dress12. Watch and Cyclometer13. Women and Tools14. Tools and How to Use Them15. Solving a Problem16. Where to Keep a Bicycle17. Tires18. Mechanics of Bicycling19. Adjustment20. Exercise21. Training22. Breathlessness; The Limit Mechanical
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2020-935830
Dewey Decimal
796.6082
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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