"Impetuous feminity": as the modest bicycle released women

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Vintage bicycle posters which tell an interesting story of fight for the female rights. The leader of movement for the civil rights Susan Braunell Antony who has played a significant role in the suffrage of women United States of America, told in interview to the New York World newspaper in 1896: "I consider that [bicycle] made for emancipation of women more, than something else in the world. I rejoice each time when I see the woman passing by by bicycle. It gives it self-reliance and independence while it sits down on it; and here it went, an image of impetuous feminity". It was...