ABSTRACT This article charts the growth of the sport of women’s cycling in Britain during the inter-war years. It does so with reference to contemporary media sources and specifically the popular periodical Cycling. It examines this development in the context of how emerging ideals about the new modern women jostled with traditional notions of femininity in interwar Britain. Women’s cycling both challenged and complemented ideas of femininity, although how much and how many women engaged in these debates is unclear. While there is a growing historiography on cycling in the Victorian period, the interwar period has been largely under-researched by historians. This article will begin to fill this gap. In addition to the development of sporting bodies and clubs, it highlights the career of Marguerite Wilson. Wilson was the first full-time female professional cyclist who rode for bicycle companies to advertise their products through her pursuit of records such as Land’s End to John O’Groats. Wilson herself embodied the rise of a competitive female body who through her record-breaking exploits contributed towards a narrowing of gender differences.

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玛格丽特·威尔逊和其他“硬骑……女性太空食客”：两次世界大战期间英国的自行车和现代女性气质

摘要 本文描绘了两次世界大战期间英国女子自行车运动的发展情况。它参考了当代媒体资源，特别是流行的期刊 Cycling。它在两次世界大战之间的英国关于新现代女性的新兴理想如何与传统的女性气质观念相冲突的背景下研究了这一发展。女子自行车运动既挑战又补充了女性气质的观念，尽管参与这些辩论的女性人数和人数尚不清楚。虽然维多利亚时期关于自行车的历史记载越来越多，但历史学家在很大程度上对两次世界大战之间的时期进行了研究。本文将开始填补这一空白。除了体育机构和俱乐部的发展，它突出了玛格丽特·威尔逊的职业生涯。威尔逊是第一位为自行车公司效力的全职女性职业自行车手，她通过追求“Land's End to John O'Groats”等记录来宣传自己的产品。威尔逊本人体现了一个有竞争力的女性身体的崛起，她通过她破纪录的功绩为缩小性别差异做出了贡献。