Class Year
2016
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The increasing popularity and widespread use of the bicycle in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries directly contributed to the movement for women’s rights in the following decades. The sense of independence cycling afforded to women, as well as the opportunities for unification in defense of a cause that arose in light of controversies over the pursuit, were important in forming the foundation for later events.
Recommended Citation
Fleming, Jenna E.
(2015)
"The Bicycle Boom and Women's Rights,"
The Gettysburg Historical Journal: Vol. 14, Article 3.
Available at:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol14/iss1/3
Included in
Cultural History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, Women's History Commons