Roger Gilles

Women on the Move (eBook, ePUB)

The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women's mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the "e;safety"e; bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women's professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902. For seven years, female racers drew large and enthusiastic crowds across the country, including Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans-and many smaller cities in between. Unlike the trudging, round-the-clock marathons the men (and their spectators) endured, women's six-day races were tightly scheduled, fast-paced, and highly competitive. The best female racers of the era-Tillie Anderson, Lizzie Glaw, and Dottie Farnsworth-became household names and were America's first great women athletes. Despite concerted efforts by the League of American Wheelmen to marginalize the sport and by reporters and other critics to belittle and objectify the women, these athletes forced turn-of-the-century America to rethink strongly held convictions about female frailty and competitive spirit. By 1900 many cities began to ban the men's six-day races, and it became more difficult to ensure competitive women's races and attract large enough crowds. In 1902 two racers died, and the sport's seven-year run was finished-and it has been almost entirely ignored in sports history, women's history, and even bicycling history. Women on the Move tells the full story of America's most popular arena sport during the 1890s, giving these pioneering athletes the place they deserve in history. Purchase the audio edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496210418
• Artikelnr.: 54230008

Autorenporträt

Roger Gilles is a writing professor at Grand Valley State University.     

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments                                                                                                     
Introduction: The Terrible
Swede                                                                             
Part 1. Bicycles and Bloomers
Chapter 1. Six-Day Bike Race for
Women                                                                           
Chapter 2. Watch the Woman
Cyclists                                                                                  
Chapter 3. After Gold and
Medals                                                                                        
Part 2. Leading Ladies
Chapter 4. Riders Are Dressed in Pleasing
Costumes                                                           
Chapter 5. Like Spiders on a
Wall                                                                                         
Chapter 6. Lovers
True                                                                                                          
Chapter 7. Girls May Pull
Hair                                                                                              
Part 3. Backlash
Chapter 8. Threatened with
Suspension                                                                                
Chapter 9. A Gala Event on
Wheels                                                                                      
Chapter 10. Is Bicycling
Immoral?                                                                                        
Chapter 11. Men versus
Women                                                                                           
Chapter 12. Amazons on
Wheels                                                                                           
Part 4. Rivals
Chapter 13. Girls Have a
Spat!                                                                                              
Chapter 14. It Will Be Run for
Blood                                                                                   
Chapter 15. They Do Not
Speak                                                                                            
Chapter 16. The “Muscular
Beauties”                                                                                   
Part 5. Lisette
Chapter 17. The Parisian, Unbeaten and Unafraid, Is
Coming                                             
Chapter 18. Lisette and Her Lightning
Rivals                                                                       
Chapter 19. The Greatest Drawing Card in Bicycle
History                                                 
Part 6. Farewell to Cycliennes
Chapter 20. War on Six-Day Bicycle
Races                                                                         
Chapter 21. Grand
Vaudeville                                                                                               
Chapter 22. Have You Seen the Cycle Whirl?
                                                                     
Epilogue: Maiden Name Known to
All                                                                                 
Notes                                                                                                                          
Index