A Bourgeois Geography of Domestic Bicycling
Using Public Space Responsibly in Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake, 1890-1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phillip Gordon Mackintosh (0000-0002-7039-7467) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 126-157 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2007.00303.x |
| OpenAlex | W2020701844 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Domestic bicycling emerged in thefin de siécleas a response to perceived violations ofhaute bourgeoispublic decorum and comportment. It promoted domestic, aestheticized and "womanly" bicycling and bicycling activities as alternatives to the anti-domestic bicycling behaviour demonstrated by reckless men and indecorous women. The domestic notion of responsible bicycling in public included the bicycle gymkhana, where the competition was not so much athletic as floral. Accordingly, Toronto's interest in the Niagara-on-the-Lake bicycle gymkhana demonstrates a progressive era impulse to substitute the chaotic with bourgeois constructions of the orderly
Architectural engineering · Bourgeoisie · Geography · Political science · Public space · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Law
The Workers' Festival
Women and the City
Parades and the Politics of the Street
The Parlour and the Suburb
The Age of Light, Soap, and Water
Becoming Modern in Toronto
Ride to Modernity
Scrutiny in the Modern City
The assertion of middle-class claims to public space in late Victorian Toronto
Negotiating access to public space in mid-nineteenth century Toronto
Controlling space, controlling scale
The development of higher urban life’ and the geographic imagination
Etiquette Books and Emotion Management in the 20th Century
Progress and Flight
Flâneurie on bicycles
Honouring ‘One of the Great Forces of the Dominion’
Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”
Sex and the city of bachelors
The “Rights” of Husbands and the “Duties” of Wives
Boundaries and the Victorian Body
Associations, Modernity and the Insider-citizens of a Victorian Highwheel Bicycle Club
The 'Women of New York
A Question of Manners
Separate Paths
Frugality or Comfort
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |