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Gendered Practices in Finnish Cycling, 1890—1939 (2010)

Männistö-Funk, Tiina (Author)

Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 16
Pages: 53-73

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23791375

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Bicycle was one of the most important consumer technologies in Finland during the interwar period, but that period of bicycle's history is largely unstudied. This article about Finnish rural cycling practices considers the mutual process of shaping between gender and the bicycle. The analysis is based on a large quantity of written memory sources that permit studying everyday bicycle use from the viewpoint of users. The bicycle's spread to the countryside from the late-nineteenth century on marked a new process in its development and use, separate from the preceding bicycle boom among prosperous city-dwellers. Looking at the cycling practices of elderly farmers' wives and young hired women, for example, shows us that the bicycle became a radical innovation in rural life. Its uses and success were closely connected to the changes happening in the culture of the countryside. Considering the performative construction of gender helps one to understand the many uses and meanings of the bicycle in the countryside. A concrete example of this is the bicycle rituals connected to the sexuality of rural youth.

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