Righteous sisterhood : The politics and power of an all-women's motorcycle club / Sarah L. Hoiland.

Introduction: The 1960s: the creation of the "all-American bogeyman"
Women bikers and righteous sisters
Methodology and authorship
Biker semiotics and semantics
Breakdown of the parts
Citizenship in the biker nation
A patching ceremony
A brief history of RSMC
Patches as sacred symbols
A political community
Bodies and structures
Conclusion
Becoming a righteous sister
Spirit ride
Theorizing righteous sisterhood
Dreaming of righteous sisterhood
Initiation, Marrying in
Conclusion
Righteousness and the realm of action
An awards ceremony
Achieving arete
The public space of appearances
Gifts and the space of appearances
Conclusion
From righteous sister to civil death
A beginning and an ending
"She's dead to me"
Life changes
Until death do us part
Ex-ethnographer
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index.