Like The Wind

06/15/23 • 25 min

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When the bicycle was invented it did more than simply change people's lives, leisure and mobility. It ignited a controversy over traditional gender roles. One woman set out to change all that.

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American Shadows - Like The Wind

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You're listening to American Shadows, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey. In October of eighteen ninety three, it became clear to the readers of the National Police Gazette, a popular men's magazine, that America was facing a scourge that challenged the decency and the physical well being of Americans. It had been introduced in the country almost a decade earlier, and had been a plague on women's health and happiness