Masculine scripting and the mythology of motorcycling

Title: Masculine scripting and the mythology of motorcycling
Creator: Rofe, Matthew W.; Winchester, Hilary P. M.
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 7, Issue 1-2, p. 161-179
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2003
Description: Participant observation and interviews with bikers on the Old Road north of Sydney demonstrate that the performance of a motorcycling identity is related to naturalised discourses of masculinity. The mythological scripting of motorcycling masculinity is reinforced through the motorcycling media and the socialisation and initiation of young riders. The myths that are enacted are essentially myths of mastery, predominantly over self and machine, but by extension over nature, women and homosexual masculinities. We argue that the non–conforming behaviour of motorcyclists reflects not class–based alienation and resistance to authority but the performance of motorcycling mythologies based on aggressive masculinity.
Subject: bikers; motorcycling; mythology; masculinity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1046482
Identifier: uon:14639
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
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