Motorization: Focuses on the motorcycle not the car as the most important cultural commodity of early motorization in Germany. Gender and Consumption: Focuses on masculinity not only femininity in exploring how motorization as a practice of consumption shaped gender. Extends and amends standard interpretations of class and gender in the Weimar Republic. Unique archive of sources and interdisciplinary approach: From official juridical records to popular culture, takes a "mobility studies" approach to the history of motorization during the Weimar Republic.
Motorization: Focuses on the motorcycle not the car as the most important cultural commodity of early motorization in Germany. Gender and Consumption: Focuses on masculinity not only femininity in exploring how motorization as a practice of consumption shaped gender. Extends and amends standard interpretations of class and gender in the Weimar Republic. Unique archive of sources and interdisciplinary approach: From official juridical records to popular culture, takes a "mobility studies" approach to the history of motorization during the Weimar Republic.
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
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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