Volume 5, Issue 2: Fall 2009

The fall issue spans the globe, from the United States to Great Britain and India. Contributors M. Shelly Conner, David Lancaster, and Sushil Chandra and Sudhir Atreya also represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives: Conner considers women's involvement in African-American motorcycle clubs and Lancaster focuses on neglected British racing history, while Chandra and Atreya offer an distinctly Indian approach to the fusion of design studies and literature.

Plus, we include reviews of An Anthology of Motorcycle Travel Literature, Riding Old Motorcycles, Shop Class as Soulcraft, and Harley-Davidson and Philosophy.

 

Images: On left, Bessie Stringfield, the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami," 1959. On right, racing poster image from Wimbledon, 1979.

 

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This year marks the 5th anniversary of this journal's publication. Each month, over 3000 readers from around the globe visit our site. To celebrate motorcycle studies, we are planning the first-ever IJMS-sponsored conference, June 3-6, 2010. In keeping with the journal's international and open approach, we encourage readers, writers and RIDERS from around the globe to join us in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the heart of the American Rocky Mountains.

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The Inaugural IJMS Conference, June 3-6, 2010