The Devil's Wheels : : Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic / / Sasha Disko.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Disko, Sasha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Mobility ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction: Does the Man Make the Motorcycle or the Motorcycle the Man? --; 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 --; CHAPTER 5 Deviant Behaviors Inclusion, Exclusion, and Community --; CHAPTER 6 Motoring Amazons? Women and Motorcycling --; CHAPTER 7 Sex and the Sidecar: Sexuality, Courtship, Marriage, and Motorization --; Epilogue: The Will to Motor --; Appendix: Tables --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785331701; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785331701?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sasha Disko.

During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years.