Download or read book Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers written by Patricia Marks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman, "" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880's and 1890's, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the