Title Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press / Patricia Marks.

Publication Info.	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
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Contents	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.
Summary	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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Subject	Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Feminism.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	United States.
	Women -- Press coverage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Women -- Press coverage.
	Women -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Women's rights.
	Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Feminism.
	Women's movement.
	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Marks, Patricia. Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers : The New Woman in the Popular Press. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813117041
ISBN	9780813158631 (electronic book)
	081315863X (electronic book)

Title Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press / Patricia Marks.

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