Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society

by Barbara Joans

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029917350X
• ISBN13: 9780299173500
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"