The Gendered Motorcycle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gendered Motorcycle write by Esperanza Miyake. This book was released on 2018-06-14. The Gendered Motorcycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens to gender at 120mph? Are Harley-Davidsons more masculine than Yamahas? The Gendered Motorcycle answers such questions through a critical examination of motorcycles in film, advertising and television. Whilst bikers and biker cultures have been explored previously, the motorcycle itself has remained largely under-theorised, especially in relation to gender. Esperanza Miyake reveals how representations of motorcycles can produce different gendered bodies, identities, spaces and practices. This interdisciplinary book offers new and critical ways to think about gender and motorcycles, and will interest scholars and students of gender, technology and visual cultures, as well as motorcycle industry practitioners and motorcycle enthusiasts.
The Gendered Motorcycle
The Gendered Motorcycle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gendered Motorcycle write by Esperanza Miyake. This book was released on 2018-06-14. The Gendered Motorcycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens to gender at 120mph? Are Harley-Davidsons more masculine than Yamahas? The Gendered Motorcycle answers such questions through a critical examination of motorcycles in film, advertising and television. Whilst bikers and biker cultures have been explored previously, the motorcycle itself has remained largely under-theorised, especially in relation to gender. Esperanza Miyake reveals how representations of motorcycles can produce different gendered bodies, identities, spaces and practices. This interdisciplinary book offers new and critical ways to think about gender and motorcycles, and will interest scholars and students of gender, technology and visual cultures, as well as motorcycle industry practitioners and motorcycle enthusiasts.
Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment
Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment write by Liz Jansen. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of stories that detail a journey along our personal, emotional and spiritual path to enlightenment and becoming all that we are.
The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles write by Melissa Holbrook Pierson. This book was released on 2011-01-12. The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.
Born to Be Wild
Born to Be Wild - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born to Be Wild write by Randy D. McBee. This book was released on 2015-05-14. Born to Be Wild available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of newspapers and magazines, the three-day gathering sparked the growth of a new subculture while also touching off national alarm. In the years that followed, the stereotypical leather-clad biker emerged in the American consciousness as a menace to law-abiding motorists and small towns. Yet a few short decades later, the motorcyclist, once menacing, became mainstream. To understand this shift, Randy D. McBee narrates the evolution of motorcycle culture since World War II. Along the way he examines the rebelliousness of early riders of the 1940s and 1950s, riders' increasing connection to violence and the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, the rich urban bikers of the 1990s and 2000s, and the factors that gave rise to a motorcycle rights movement. McBee's fascinating narrative of motorcycling's past and present reveals the biker as a crucial character in twentieth-century American life.
