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Revolutions - How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels (Paperback)
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Revolutions - How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels (Paperback)
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List price R470
Loot Price R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
You Save R86 (18%)
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Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover's bike to cycle around Paris
in the 1940s, instantly falling in love with the freedom it gave
her (even when an accident caused her to lose a tooth). Alice
Hawkins, a factory worker from Leicester, pedal-powered her fight
for universal suffrage as the bicycle became a cornerstone of her
work to recruit women to the cause. Zahra Naarin Hussano challenged
religious and cultural taboos in Afghanistan to ride a bike and
teach others to do the same. As a twenty-four-year-old Latvian
immigrant living in Boston, in 1894 Annie 'Londonderry' Kopchovsky
became the first woman to cycle around the world. She took up the
challenge, despite never having ridden a bike before, after two men
bet a woman couldn't do it. Many of these women were told they
couldn't or shouldn't cycle, but they did so anyway. Whether
winning medals or spreading the word about votes for women, their
stories are an inspiration. In this gloriously celebratory book,
Hannah Ross introduces us to the women who are part of the rich and
varied history of cycling, many of whom have been pushed to the
margins or forgotten.
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