• Abstract
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Media as Meaning Makers -- The media as a meaning–making institution, describing for particular audiences the line between deviance and propriety.
• Chapter 2: The Motorcycle as Americam Icon -- A historical context for the motorcycle, one–percenters and outlaw clubs.
• Chapter 3: Newsstand Menace -- How newspapers and magazines reported events surrounding motorcycle outlaws, discrediting the clubs while accepting less extreme aspects which were, over time, introduced into the mainstream.
• Chapter 4: Insiders, Outsiders and Outlaws -- How non–fiction writers and biographers have accounted for the evolution and continued success of outlaw clubs, especially the Hell’s Angels.
• Chapter 5: Genres and Junk Fiction -- How genre fiction, in order to support a masculine ideal, either ignores or accepts certain attributes of the outlaw biker lifestyle.
• Chapter 6: The Demands of Popularity -- How images of rough–and–ready bikers, independent yet hedonistic, have been used and exploited in popular entertainment genres.
• Chapter 7: Building a Biker Community -- How bikers have defined and fortified their own lifestyle in specialized media.
• Conclusion: "Bikers as 'Not–a–Citizen'" -- Describes the clarity of the biker myth and its singular utility in representing the "not–a–citizen."
• Bibliography
• Source Materials: An assortment of articles, photos, illustrations.
(All content Copyright 1997 Ross Fuglsang)
