During the unprecedented modernization of Germany's Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values.
During the unprecedented modernization of Germany's Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values.
Sasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She received her PhD in History from New York University, and she has been associated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin, since 2008. Her research interests include motorization, industrialization, and leisure.
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List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Does the man make the motorcycle or the motorcycle the man? Abbreviations Chapter 1. From Pioneers to Global Dominance: The First Forty Years of the German Motorcycle Industry Chapter 2. Engineering and Advertising a Motorized Future Chapter 3. Motorcycles and the "Everyman": Exploring the Motorcycling Milieu Chapter 4. "Is Motorcycling Even Sport?": Strength and the National Body during the Weimar Republic Chapter 5. Deviant Behaviors: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Community Chapter 6. Motoring Amazons?: Women and Motorcycling During the Weimar Republic Chapter 7. Sex and the Sidecar: Sexuality, Courtship, Marriage and Motorization Epilogue: The Will to Motor Appendix Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Does the man make the motorcycle or the motorcycle the man? Abbreviations Chapter 1. From Pioneers to Global Dominance: The First Forty Years of the German Motorcycle Industry Chapter 2. Engineering and Advertising a Motorized Future Chapter 3. Motorcycles and the "Everyman": Exploring the Motorcycling Milieu Chapter 4. "Is Motorcycling Even Sport?": Strength and the National Body during the Weimar Republic Chapter 5. Deviant Behaviors: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Community Chapter 6. Motoring Amazons?: Women and Motorcycling During the Weimar Republic Chapter 7. Sex and the Sidecar: Sexuality, Courtship, Marriage and Motorization Epilogue: The Will to Motor Appendix Bibliography Index
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