TY - BOOK AU - Marks,Patricia TI - Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers: the new woman in the popular press SN - 9780813158631 AV - PN4888 .B539 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Feminism KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - Women KW - Press coverage KW - Women's rights KW - Women in the press KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938229&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -