Contents of Formula: Gendered Spheres

Lecture Notes

In fiction, similar stories developed: often men had to fall off their bicycles and be nursed back to health by a women in the home. The fiction of the period lauded bicycles without challenging notions of heterosexuality. A bicycle ride did not mean that women ultimately left the home. Indeed, the fiction of the era helped promote bicycles by arguing that women might be better mothers if they were more physically fit.