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In REVOLUTIONS erzählt Hannah Ross die Geschichte des Fahrrads aus weiblicher Perspektive. Sie führt uns von den Anfängen des Radfahrens im 19. Jahrhundert, als Frauen unglaubliche Widerstände überwinden mussten, bis in die Gegenwart und rund um die Welt, von Europa und den USA bis in den Nahen Osten, nach Indien und Australien. Die inspirierenden Lebensgeschichten vieler außergewöhnlicher Rad-Pionierinnen, Rennfahrerinnen, Feministinnen und A...

The highly praised and fascinating story of the women through history who broke from convention and cycled their way to freedom

Times are changing inside and outside the Boundary. Many citizens are becoming restless, moving out to resettle the wilderness. Those already outside, especially the once-abandoned children who are now young adults, find having more neighbors brings both blessings and problems. Within the Boundary, President Dahl has renewed his quest for the life-extension formula as he faces reelection. Confident of victory, he is unaware his youngest daught...

For many decades, the White Tower government barricaded the population inside the Boundary, creating an oasis of civilization and stability in a war-ravaged world. Now ambition trumps caution as the Tower begins an expansion campaign, reclaiming abandoned lands and all but enslaving the Wild Children or, as they prefer to be called, the Freeborn - the non-status people it formerly cast out as a useless burden to society. Priscilla, the rebelli...

A history and celebration of women's cycling-beginning with its origins as a political statement, beloved pastime, and early feminist act-that shares the stories of notable cyclists and groups around the worldMore than a century after they first entered the mainstream, bicycles and the culture around them are as accessible as ever-but for women, that progress has always been a struggle to achieve, and even now the culture remains overwhelmingl...

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Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover's bike to cycle around Paris in the 1940s, instantly falling in love with the freedom it gave her (even when an accident caused her to lose a tooth). Alice Hawkins, a factory worker from Leicester, pedal-powered her fight for universal suffrage as the bicycle became a cornerstone of her work to recruit women to the cause. Zahra Naarin Hussano challenged religious and cultural taboos in Afghanistan to ride ...

In a post-war world, where reproduction is strictly controlled and transgressions severely punished, they are society's rejects. Unwanted and unloved, they are raised in an orphanage until age twelve, then taken beyond the Boundary and left to fend for themselves, to survive or perish. One child was different, though he didn't know it. He was wanted, he was loved, and he was hidden for three months. But reason prevailed. A third child mea...