Flâneurie on bicycles: Acquiescence to women in public in the 1890s

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-37

  Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon ^a   Norcliffe, Glen ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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INDIVIDUALISM; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 33646132755     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2006.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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