Bicycles, Bangs, and BloomersThe so called "New Woman" that determined and free wheeling figure in "rational" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the "womanly woman," a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and