Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers the new woman in the popular press / Patricia Marks.
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TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780813158631
- Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- Press coverage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women in the press -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women in the press -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- PN4888 .B539 2015
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Queen Victoria's Granddaughter; 1. Women and Marriage: ""Running in Blinkers""; 2. Women's Work: More ""Bloomin' Bad Bizness""; 3. Women's Education: ""Maddest Folly Going""; 4. Women's Clubs: ""Girls Will Be Girls""; 5. Women's Fashions: The Shape of Things to Come; 6. Women's Athletics: A Bicycle Built for One; Conclusion: The New Woman; Works Cited; Index.
The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman, "" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880s and 1890s, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the.
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