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#1 2012-03-26 10:38:50

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How the bicycle empowered women

National Geographic's book, Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), explains the improvement of status and freedom to women afforded by the bicycle.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/ … e-bicycle/

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#2 2012-03-26 11:29:51

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Re: How the bicycle empowered women

so I wonder if the GOP attacks on women's healthcare issues is tied in with their attacks on Bike/Ped funding

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