![During the 1980's mastery of the bicycle was a metaphor for women’s mastery over their own lives, today women in Egypt take to the wheel as a way to voice their dissatisfaction with the seemingly natural place of women. [harkavagrant.com]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/bike.jpg?itok=Tk8gH2FE "During the 1980's mastery of the bicycle was a metaphor for women’s mastery over their own lives, today women in Egypt take to the wheel as a way to voice their dissatisfaction with the seemingly natural place of women. [harkavagrant.com]")
Women in Egypt today echo the voices of women during the Victorian era who sought emancipation in a society which firmly believed that machinery and athletic activity should remain part of a man’s world and that a woman’s world should remain distinct and separate.
