Question

What is the central idea of this article Excerpt from Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)Use two details from the article to support your response.

Answer 1

The central theme of the article is to show how the creation of the bicycle contributed to greater freedom for women, encouraging female emancipation.

Step-by-step explanation:

The article shows that with the popularization of the bicycle, women were able to dispense with huge skirts, millions of layers of clothing and a corset, as these things prevented balance and did not allow women to ride their bikes correctly. The abandonment of this type of clothing was a great victory for women, first because it allowed them to have more comfort and secondly it allowed stereotypes in relation to women's clothing to be overthrown.