Claiming the Bicycle

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8093-3444-5
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

Tracing the role of nineteenthcentury women and rhetoric in transforming the bicycle

Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues that through their collective rhetorical activities, women who were widely dispersed in space, genre, and intention negotiated proper uses for the bicycle, destabilizing cultural assumptions about femininity and gender difference.

Making a significant contribution to studies of feminist rhetorical historiography, rhetorical agency, and technical communication, Claiming the Bicycle asserts the utility of a distributed or “collected” model of rhetorical agency and accounts for the efforts of widely dispersed actors to harness technology in promoting social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hallenbeck, Sarah

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Hallenbeck is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her essays on feminist rhetorical historiography and technical communication have been published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, and the edited collection Women and Rhetoric between the Wars.