Opposition
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Female cyclist in rational dress from 1889. Source: http://1890swriters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/1890s-womens-fashion.html
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The Safety Cycle: Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company Getty Images
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Cambridge students hang an effigy of a woman riding a bike in protest against university admission. Photograph: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images
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Source: http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bicycles-1895/
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Two suffragettes on bicycles in 1914. Photograph: Corbis
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Beryl Burton
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Connie Carpenter-Phinney wins the LA Olympics Road Race in 1984. Photo sourced from http://pages.rapha.cc/
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Helen Wyman wins the 2013 Koppenbergcross. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Afp/AFP/Getty Images
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Photo: http://www.womenstour.co.uk/
Opposition
The level of inequality that women experienced in the past is depicted in this photograph.
Male undergraduates at Cambridge University protested against the full admission of female students by hanging an effigy of a ‘New Woman’ on a bicycle from a window in Market Square circa 1897.
This is an example of how the bicycle was associated with the women’s movement, used here to demonstrate the men’s opposition against a women’s right to have a university education.