Sasha Disko

The Devil's Wheels

Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Explorations in Mobility
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781789205237
• ISBN-10: 1789205239
• Artikelnr.: 56728223

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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