Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society [Paperback]

From Publishers Weekly

It’s hard to be in love when your friends don’t quite approve. That’s the fix in which anthropologist Joans (director of the Merritt Museum of Anthropology at Merritt College, in California) finds herself in this mix of memoir, anthropological study and apologia for the love of “hogs.” The apologia is weakest: “Harley riders, as a group, are racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and misogynistic,” she admits, but so is “most of America.” The anthropology here i (more…)