For 10 points, name this invention that liberated American women by enabling them to leave their homes under their own power.
Maria Ward wrote a popular handbook which taught women how to use this invention. Late in her life, Frances Willard wrote a book enthusiastically describing how she learned to use an example of this invention that she nicknamed "Gladys." After this invention became popular, conservative critics warned that women using it in the "scorching" position were masturbating, causing most advertisements for it to portray women upright. Images satirizing the "New Woman" often depicted a woman smoking a cigarette and using this invention. It revolutionized women's (*) clothing because using it while wearing a bustle or corset was extremely difficult, popularizing "rational dress" such as shorter skirts and bloomers. The "safety" type of this invention was massively popular in the 1890s, and allowed young women to socialize without being chaperoned. For 10 points, name this invention that liberated American women by enabling them to leave their homes under their own power.
Maria Ward wrote a popular handbook which taught women how to use this invention.
safety bicycles [accept velocipedes; do not accept "penny-farthings"]