This thesis examines the connections between the dynamics of consumption and the feminist movement, choosing as the central object of analysis the alliances and tensions built between the consumption of bicycles and the struggle for women s suffrage – an articulation that occurred mainly in the USA during the second half from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, a period that embraces the First Wave of the feminist movement. It is emphasized the understanding of modern-contemporary consumption as a social and symbolic phenomenon that will be treated, in these words, with theoretical contributions from the Social Sciences. In the construction of this thesis we intend to analyze the historical reasons that motivated women to claim their civil rights and how these claims could be driven by the consumption route – presenting, as a reinforcement of argumentation, some other fruitful episodes of this partnership. In this bibliographical and documentary research, the mutations in the social dynamics established by the effective participation of women in the culture of consumption will be investigated with historical distancing – looking for the changes that allowed a greater women’s participation in the public sphere, the transformations in fashion, in the sexual behavior, the academic access activity and, ultimately, the right to vote. It is assumed that consumption, as a central element in modern-contemporary culture, should be studied not only by economic bias, but also as an important social code, so that by demonstrating their logical, structures and meanings, become possible to understand the values, ideologies and ways that guide human relationships. This thesis aims to emphasize that the study of the sensitivities related to the consumption theme can expose fundamental ideas and structures that corroborated the construction of a new paradigm of female citizenship in the twentieth century.