Bike Lust Harleys, Women, and American Society

Name: Bike Lust Harleys, Women, and American Society
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ISBN: 9780299173500

ISBN-10: 029917350X

ISBN-13: 9780299173500

Edition: 2001

Authors: Barbara Joans

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Joans (anthropology, Merritt College, Oakland, California) offers an account of her own motorbike riding experiences while examining the elaborate rules, rituals, and rites of passage in the biker culture, particularly as they relate to women, both as individual riders and riders on the back of men's bikes. Includes bandw photographs. c. Book News Inc.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 8/3/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Joans is director of the Merritt Museum of Anthropology and chair of the Department of anthropology at Merritt College in Oakland, California.



Illustrations


Preface



History and Structure


Introduction: The Love Run



"Teach the Children Well ..."



Harley Culture: An Emerging Community



The Early Years



Movers and Shakers: Some Key Players



Cultural Analysis



Enter the Culture



Women Jamming the Wind



Sex and Gender



Rites of Passage



Family Portraits in Duplicate



Hanging with the Clubs



Bike Lust



NFGs: The New and the Old



Jamming the Wind



An Intimate Account of the Redwood Run: Our First Year



The Pit: Layered and Loud



The "Wetwood" Run: Frigid and Freezing



Redwood Run Rerun: Heat, Harleys, and Havoc



Polemics and Philosophy



Bikers' Dirty Little Open Secret: The Racism Rap


Glossary


References


Index