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@FourT4 asks:
Q2. Can you share images of women cycling:
- in the late 19th/early 20th century, when it was a A Big Deal*, including but not limited to ads & patronising satirical cartoons
- in press cuttings
- contemporary ones showing bicycles as a tool of independence (e.g. Afghan women)
Thanks. I got a message from Roach Minor, they've learned that bicycles played a big part in women's independence and it'd be fun to deluge w/ examples.
A2. Thank you all for taking the time to reply, some fascinating stuff there, and I have duly deluged Roach Minor so we'll see what they make of it all! @meganL @cainmark @silvermoon82 @ai6yr @gcvsa @clew @uxmark @grammasaurus @adamrice @rowmyboat
One more! She died SO young. Keep her memory in the wires —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittie_Knox
@FourT4 @ascentale @meganL @cainmark @silvermoon82 @ai6yr @gcvsa @uxmark @grammasaurus @adamrice @rowmyboat
@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2. https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a62503930/afghanistan-cyclist-evacuation-taliban-us-troop-withdrawal/
https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/01/06/beaten-lady-violence-cyclists-nothing-new/
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/103945/rec/37
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/58981/rec/20
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/130784/rec/15
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/103910/rec/18
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/103936/rec/32
@meganL @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite
Interesting read. Somehow I'd forgotten about the destruction of those Buddhas.
The ongoing nastiness of the Taliban has somehow got lost in all the other nastiness.
@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2: there’s this book I was given for a birthday by an ex #BikeNite
@rowmyboat @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite
Bicycling for Ladies, Maria E. Ward, is in the public domain.
https://librivox.org/bicycling-for-ladies-by-maria-e-ward/
@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite In the late 1800s, six-day racing was a big deal, and there was also women’s six-day racing, which was a little less crazy—and probably better racing—because they were allowed to take breaks. Tillie Anderson was one of the big names
@ascentale@sfba.social @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk @bikenite@fedigroups.social A2: I wish I had pictures to share. Where I'm from, women cycling is a daily occurrence as they do a lot of things on bikes, including (but not limited to) doing grocery shopping, dropping off / picking up kids, covering their last-mile trips, etc, but I realize that cycling was a way for women to gain freedom and independence at least in North America.
#BikeNite
@daihard @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite
I've seen articles indicating it was very clearly a liberation thing for women in fin de siècle America. Sorry, don't have any to hand.
@FourT4 @bikenite A2. There are a couple of nice images used in the beginning of the Motherload movie (link below) and I though I remember seeing a nice exhibit at the Smithsonian museum of American History last time I visited. I don't know if that's since been wiped clean for not agreeing with this admin's ideals, but it was an educational and enjoyable exhibit.
@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2: oooh, I love this one! I gave a talk a couple years back on this subject, and I’m doing it again this spring with a slightly different title.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607144/revolutions-by-hannah-ross/. (awesome history, but no photos)
https://katjungnickel.com/portfolio/bikes-bloomers-book/
(the photo below is from this book)
this one, published by National Geographic, has loads of photos: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wheels-of-change-sue-macy/1102176634
@grammasaurus By any chance are you ever in the Midwest. We have local group that hosts open lectures we call History Happy Hour here in town once a month. That would be a great talk.
Kay Jungnickel’s book on women who engineered made and PATENTED convertible bicycling clothes —
@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2. There are a few women and girls riding in this bike bus from a few years ago here in Waterloo 😀🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️❤️
BikeNite A2. This one is great, the Library of Congress has a digitized film !) from 1903's showing women (and men) commuting home from work on bicycle.
@ai6yr @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite What is remarkable to me about that film is that it shows just how rapidly cycling took off following the introduction of the "safety bicycle" just a few years earlier. At the time of this 1903 film, most people would have only recently been able to purchase safety bicycles, as they were only introduced in the US, by Overman, in Masschusetts, in 1887, and it would have taken some few years for them to reach many markets. Parke Davis was in Detroit, MI.
@ai6yr @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite as good as a car if you live on flat land
@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite
A2.
No photo, but during WWII the very last thing my grandmother and her sister did before leaving Amsterdam for Canada was to drop their skirts and ride through town wearing (*gasp*) pants. They stopped around the corner from the port to put their skirts back, rode to the ship, and still somehow Opa knew.
#BikeNite
A2. None personally, and not sharing the few I have from half a decade ago because of privacy issues, but this was a great book with a bunch of photos of women and PedalCycles:
"Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)."
