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Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing,New
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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 womens mastery over their lives.Spurred by the emergence of the safety bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, womens 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 Orleansand many smaller cities in between. Unlike the trudging, roundtheclock marathons the men (and their spectators) endured, womens sixday races were tightly scheduled, fastpaced, and highly competitive. The best female racers of the eraTillie Anderson, Lizzie Glaw, and Dottie Farnsworthbecame household names and were Americas 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 turnofthecentury America to rethink strongly held convictions about female frailty and competitive spirit.By 1900 many cities began to ban the mens sixday races, and it became more difficult to ensure competitive womens races and attract large enough crowds. In 1902 two racers died, and the sports sevenyear run was finishedand it has been almost entirely ignored in sports history, womens history, and even bicycling history. Women on the Move tells the full story of Americas 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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