Harley For Women
Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, And American Society
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Harley for Women
Bike Lust roars straight into the world of women bikers and offers us a ride. In this adventure story that is also an insider’s study of an American subculture, Barbara Joans enters as a passenger on the back of a bike, but soon learns to ride her own. As an anthropologist she untangles the rules, rituals, and rites of passage of the biker culture. As a new member of that culture, she struggles to overcome fear, physical weakness, and a tendency to shoot her mouth off-a tendency that very near
Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, And American Society
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Harley Davidson For Women
Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society
Harley Davidson for Women – click on the image below for more information.
Harley Davidson for Women
Bike Lust roars straight into the world of women bikers and offers us a ride. In this adventure story that is also an insider’s study of an American subculture, Barbara Joans enters as a passenger on the back of a bike, but soon learns to ride her own. As an anthropologist she untangles the rules, rituals, and rites of passage of the biker culture. As a new member of that culture, she struggles to overcome fear, physical weakness, and a tendency to shoot her mouth off-a tendency that very near
Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society
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From Publishers Weekly
It’s hard to be in love when your friends don’t quite approve. That’s the fix in which anthropologist Joans (director of the Merritt Museum of Anthropology at Merritt College, in California) finds herself in this mix of memoir, anthropological study and apologia for the love of “hogs.” The apologia is weakest: “Harley riders, as a group, are racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and misogynistic,” she admits, but so is “most of America.” The anthropology here i (more…)
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