The historical-temporal focus of the research was the city of Belém do Pará, between
the decades of 1870 and 1890, a period that covers part of the Amazonian Belle
Époque. By choosing belenense women as the subject of the research, cycling was
adopted as the guiding thread, aiming to understand this practice as a participant in
the insertion of those women in the world of sociability inherent to an ongoing
urbanization dynamic. The research was of a historical and documentary nature, and
its methodology implied the definition of the collection, as well as the selection,
cataloging, handling and analysis of documentary sources, namely, belenense
newspapers from the period mentioned here. Were discussed forms of sociability of
the woman from Belém from the 1870s, culminating with the arrival of cycling in the
city and the participation of women in the beginning of this practice. It was concluded
that the insertion of women in cycling as sociability occurred, initially, in the form of
spectator and, in a second moment, as a participant in cycling tours, and then, finally,
presenting themselves as an athlete.
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