Motorcycle Bibliography
This bibliography is a work in progress. I add to it as I find new sources, either through my own research or through suggestions from other folks. If you have a reference that you think should be on the list, please send it to me at cleonard@theivorygarage.org.

Revised March 9, 2006

Research: Motorcycles

Alt, John.

(1982)  “Popular Culture and Mass Consumption: The Motorcycle as Cultural Commodity,” in Journal of Popular Culture 1982 15(4): 129-141.

Arnold, Frank Rickabaugh.

(1997) Ordinary Motorcycle Thrills: The Circulation of Motorcycle Meanings in American Film and Popular Culture. (Dissertation) Publication: U. of Southern California 1997. 382 pp. DAI 1997 58(5): 1481-A. DA9733021

Barker, Paul and Little Alan

(1964) “The Margate Offenders: A survey,” in New Society, vol. 4, no. 96, July, pp. 6‑10.

Biberman, Sidney

"Vincents with Big Sid," Available from: bigsid@webtv.net or Sidney Biberman, 4247 Middlebrook Rd . , Louisville , KY. , 40207, USA

Bonilla, Carlton L.

(1998) “A South Dakota Rendezvous: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Races,” in South Dakota History. 28(3): 123-143.

Brooks, Sammy Kent.

(1975) "The Motorcycle in American Culture: From Conception to 1935." George Washington University. 315 pp. DAI 1976 36(7): 4667-A.

Chesham, D. J., Rutter,D.R., and Quine, L

(1993) “Motorcycling Safety Research : A Review of the Social and Behavioural Literature,” in Social Science and Medicine, 37 (3) pp. 419-429.

Cohen, Stanley

(1980) Folk Devils and Moral Panics : The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. 2nd ed, Oxford : Martin Robertson.

Drutt, Matthew ed.

1998 The Art of the Motorcycle (Catalog). The Art of the Motorcycle Exhibit, Guggenheim Museum: New York.

Farren, Mick

(1985) The Black Leather Jacket. London: Plexus Publishing.

Ferrar, Ann

(1996) Hear Me Roar: Women, Motorcycles, and the Rapture of the Road. New York, USA: Crown Publishers.

Girdler, Allan

1997. The Harley-Davidson and Indian Wars. Motorbikes International Publishers and Wholesalers: Osceola.

Harris, Ian Richard (Also known as Maz see below)

(1986) Myth and Reality in the  Motorcycle Subculture. Unpublished Ph.d Thesis, Warwick University, Department of Sociology.

Harris, Maz

(1985) Bikers : Birth of a Modern Day Outlaw. London: Faber and Faber.

Hobbs, Catherine., Galer, Ian,. and Stroud, Peter

(1986) 'The Characteristics and Attitudes of Motorcyclists : A National Survey', Research Report 51 for the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Department of Transport.

Hopper, Columbus B. and Moore, Johnny "Big John".

(1983) “Hell on Wheels: The Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs,” in Journal of American Culture. 1983 6(2): 58-64.

Hopper, Columbus B. and Moore, Johnny "Big John".

(1990) “Women in Motorcycle Gangs,” in Journal of contemporary Ethnography. Vol 18 (4).

Jackson, Chris and Wilson, Glen, D

(1992) “Mad, bad or sad? The personality of bikers,” in Journal of Personality and Individual Differences.14,  pp. 241-242.

Jackson, Jeremy and Blackman, Roger

(1994) “A Driving Simulator Test of Wilde's Risk Homeostasis Theory,” in Journal of Applied Psychology. 79 (6) pp. 950-958.

Joans, Barbara

(2001) Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, & American Society. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

McDonald‑Walker, Suzanne

(2000) Bikers: Culture, Politics, and Power. Oxford: Berg.

Michalowski, Raymond and Jill Dubisch

(2001) Run for the Wall: Remembering Viet Nam on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Pearson, Geoffrey

(1988) “Hooligans and Youthful Crime : 'Permissiveness' and Tradition,” in Social Studies Review. March, pp. 160-164.

Phipps, Albert

(1998) Born to be Wild ? The Social Construction of the 'Deviant Biker'. Unpublished Independent Study Report, Psychology Department, Bolton Institute.

Reynolds, Tom

(2000) Wild Ride: How Outlaw Motorcycle Myth Conquered America. New York: TV Books.

Rubin, Martin.

(1994) “Make Love Make War: Cultural Confusion and The Biker Film Cycle,” in Film History [Great Britain] 1994 6(3): 355-381.

Sato, Ikuya.

(1991) Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan.  Chicago: the University of Chicago Press.

Smith, Annette R.

(1987)   "The Lady on the Iron Horse: Women Motorcycle Riders and Issues of Sexual Stratification."  American Sociological Association Paper.  Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego.

Stuart, Johnny

(1987) Rockers! London : Plexus Publishing.

Sucher, Harry V.

1992   Harley‑Davidson: The Milwaukee Marvel.  Sparkford: Haynes Publishing Group Ltd.

Susman, Warren.

(1986) “The Great Blue Motorcycle: If Necessity is The Mother of Inventions, What Are Inventions The Mother Of?” in Prospects 1986 11: 39-58.

Quinn, James F.

(1987)    “Sex Roles and Hedonism Among Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs,” in Deviant Behavior.  8(1):47‑63.

Ulmer, Jeffrey T.

(1994)    “Revisiting Stebbins: Labeling and Commitment to Deviance,” in  Sociological Quarterly.  35(1):135‑157.

Webb, Richard Jefferson.

(1994)   Identification and Commitment: the Harley‑Davidson Motorcycle as a Contested Symbolic Resource.  San Jose University: MA Thesis.

Wolf, Daniel R.

(1991)    The Rebels: A Brotherhood of Outlaw Bikers.  Toronto: University of Toronto press.

Research: of Related Interest

Birrell, Susan.

1990.  “Women of Color, Critical Autobiography, and Sport,” in in Sport, Men, and the Gender Order.  Champaign: Human Kinetics Books. Pp 185-199.

Brake, Michael.

(1980)  The sociology of youth Cultures and Youth Subcultures. London : Routledge and Keegan Paul ltd..

Brake, Michael.

 (1985) Comparative  youth Culture, London : Routledge and Keegan Paul.

Brownell, Susan.

1995. Training the Body for China : Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Butler, Judith.

1999.  Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.  New York: Routledge.

Carlisle Duncan, Margaret and Cynthia A. Hasbrook.

2002.  "Denial of power in televised women's sports" in Gender and Sport: a Reader.  London: Routledge.

Carrington, Ben.

2002.  “Sport, Masculinity, and Black Cultural Resistance,” in Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.  Pp 141-155.

Chambers, Deborah A.

(1982)   "Symbolic Equipment and the Objects of Leisure Images," in  Leisure Studies.  2(3):301‑315.

Connell, R. W.

1990.  “An Iron Man: The Body and Some Contradictions of Hegemonic Masculinity,” in Sport, Men, and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives.  Champaign: Human Kinetics Books. Pp 83-95.

1995.  Masculinities.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

“Debates About Men, New Research on Masculinities,” in Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.  Pp 161-168.

di Leonardo, Micaela.

"Introduction: Gender, Culture, and Political Economy: Feminist Anthropology in Historical Perspective,"  in Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge.  Berkely: University of California Press.  Pp 1‑48.

Dworkin, Shari and Michael Messner.

2002.  “Just Do…what? Sport, Bodies, Gender,” in Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.  Pp 17-29.

Foley, D. E.

1989. "Does the Working Class Have Culture in the Anthropological Sense?" Cultural Anthropology 4(2): 137-162.

George, Susan.

1999.  “A Short History of Neoliberalism” paper presented at Conference on Economic Sovereignty in a Globalising World, March 24-26, 1999.

Goode, Judith and J. Maskovsky

2001. Introduction. The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and impoverished People in the United States.  New York, New York University Press: 1-34.

Gruneau, Richard.

1983.  Class, Sports, and Social Development.  Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press.

Hall, M.  Anne.

2002.  "The discourse of gender and Sport: from femininity to feminism," in Gender and Sport: a Reader.  London: Routledge.

Hebdige, Dick

(1979) Subculture : The Meaning of Style. London : Methuen & Co.

Lamphere, Louise.

1992.  Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Martinez, Elizabeth and Arnoldo Garcia

2005. http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/econ101/neoliberalDefined.html

Masters, Brian

(1985) The Swinging Sixties, London: Constable.

Messner, M. A.

1992. Power at Play : Sports and the Problem of Masculinity Boston, Beacon Press.

Messner, Michael A. and Sabo, eds

1990.  “Introduction: Toward a Critical Feminist Reappraisal of Sport, Men, and the Gender Order,” in Sport, Men, and the Gender Order.  Champaign: Human Kinetics Books.

Moore, Henrietta.

1988   "Chapter 1: Feminism and Anthropology: the Story of a Relationship," in  Feminism and Anthropology.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.  Pp 1‑11.

Noyes, D.

1995. "Group." The Journal of American Folklore 108(430): 449-478.

Quinn, James F.

1987. “Sex Roles and Hedonism Among Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs.” Deviant Behavior.  8(1):47‑63.

Reiter, Rayna ed.

1975  Toward an anthropology of women. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Rofel, Lisa.

1999  Other modernities : gendered yearnings in China after socialism.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere, eds.

1974  Woman, culture, and society.  Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press.

Scraton, Sheila and Anne Flintoff.

2002.  Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.

Stetzer, Adam and Hoffman, David

(1996) 'Risk Compensation : Implications for Safety Interventions,' in Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Making Processes, 66 (1) pp. 73-88.

Stratton, Jon

(1997) “On the Importance of Subcultural Origins [1985],” in Ken Gelder  and Sarah Thornton (eds) The Subcultures Reader, London : Routledge, pp. 181-190.

Street, John

(1991) 'Youth Culture and the Emergence of Popular Music', in Britain Since 1945, Terry Gournish and Alan O'day (eds) London : Macmillan pp.305-323.

Theberge, N.

1997.  "It's Part of the Game: Physicality and the Production of Gender in Women's Hockey." Gender and Society 11(1): 69-87.

1998.  "Same Sport, Different Gender." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 22(2): 183-198.

2000. Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender. Albany, State University of New York Press.

2002.  Challenging the Gendered Space of Sport: Women’s Ice Hockey and the Struggle for Legitimacy,” in Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.  Pp 292-302.

Trankle, Ulrich and Christhard, Gelau

(1992) 'Maximization of Subjective Expected Utility or Risk Control?” Experimental Tests of Risk Homeostasis Theory,' in Ergonomics,35 (1) pp. 7-23.

Ulmer, Jeffrey T.

1994.  “Revisiting Stebbins: Labeling and Commitment to Deviance.”  Sociological Quarterly.  35(1):135‑157.

Vansittart, Peter

(1995) In the fifties, London: John Murray.

Washington, R. E. and D. Karen

2001. "Sport and Society." Annual Review of Sociology 27: 187-212.

Whitson, David.

“Sport in the Social Construction of Masculinity,” in Sport, Men, and the Gender Order.  Champaign: Human Kinetics Books. Pp19-29.

2002.  “The Embodiment of Gender: Discipline, Domination, and Empowerment” in Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.  Pp 227-240.

Widdicombe, Sue and Wooffitt, Robin

(1995) The language of Youth Subcultures : Social Identity in Action. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Williams, Jack.

2001.  Cricket and Race.  Oxford: Berg.

Willis, Paul

(1978) Profane Cultures, London: Routledge and Keegan Paul ltd.

Wray, Sharon.

2002.  “Connecting Ethnicity, Gender, and Physicality: Muslim Pakistani Women, Physical Activity, and Health,” in Gender and Sport: A Reader.  New York: Routledge.  Pp 127-140.

Magazine Articles

Barker, Paul

(1992) “New Kids on the Beach; Mods and Rockers,” in the Life and Times Section of The Sunday Times, 20th April.

Everett, Peter

(1986) You'll Never be 16 Again : An Illustrated History of the British Teenager, BBC Publications.

Fulton, Robert Edison

'One Man Caravan'

Geldard, Andrew

(1997) “An Easier Ride for Born Again Bikers,” in Independent on Sunday 26 October.

Hopper, Columbus B. and Moore, Johnny.

(1984)  “Gang Slang,” in Harpers. 262 : 34.

Krakauer, Jon

(1993) A Hog is Still a Hog, But the "Wild Ones" are Tamer. Smithsonian 1993 24(8): 88-99.

Krikorian, Michael

(1997) 'Age Mellows the Wild Ones' in The Guardian: 8 July.

Muir, Kate

(1994) 'The Angels are Just Old Softies,' in The Times 13 January.

Sharkey, Alex

(1998) 'Hell on Wheels,' in The Independent on Sunday Magazine, 18 January.

Personal Journeys: Motorcycle

Pierson, Melissa Holbrook.

1997    The Perfect Vehicle: What it is About Motorcycles.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Simon, Ted.

1996    Jupiter’s Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph.  Covelo: Jupitalia.