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KIN 249: Lecture 7.3

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Same Old Messages?

1898 Vintage Ad for Veeder Cyclometer Bicycles

Victor, Victoria bicycles

1898 Vintage Ad for Veeder Cyclometer Bicycles

Victor, Victoria bicycles

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Lecture Notes

In both print ads and in several fictional stories from the 1890s, the bicycle is presented as not only safe for women, but as a means to reinforce many of the gender ideologies already in place. These ideologies ranged from women's place is in the home, to the need to protect femininity and heterosexuality.