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Motorbikes - a social and cultural history.

Motorbikes: Laurie Taylor explores their social and cultural history.

Motorbikes: Born to be wild.  Randy McBee, Professor of Labor and Social History at the Texas Tech University, considers the rise of the  American Motorcyclist from its largely working-class roots to the growth in  "outlaw" motorcycle culture  in the 1950s through to the development of the motorcycle rights movement of the 1960s and the emergence of the rich urban biker more recently.  What impact has the 'biker' had on American culture and politics?
He's joined by Esperanza Miyake, Lecturer in Digital Media and Communications at  Manchester Metropolitan University,  and author of a new study of the 'gendered motorcycle'  in film, advertising and TV. She asks why biker culture is often seen as essentially masculine and what happens to gender  at 120mph.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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