Gentlewomen, start your engines! Debunking the popular image of "biker chicks" as Easyrider types whose sex lives appear to fixate on Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Alice Stone's immensely entertaining documentary is about take-charge kind of gals. These are women who are "sliding up to the front seat and grabbing the handlebars." Women like Jo Giannovani who publishes Harley Women (the antithesis of Easyrider); or 72-year-old Dot Robinson, whose pink motorcycle has a customized lipstick holder; or Amy Berry, a florist who rides with her pet Chihuahua sticking out of her zipped-up black leather jacket; in other words, women who love to ride motorcycles...but not as passengers. Interwoven throughout the handful of individual profiles are interesting historical snippets buttressed with great archival footage, including some of the roaring twenties cross-country ride of the high society Van Buren sisters--"mere slips of girls on man-sized machines"--who completed the journey successfully (but were arrested along the way for wearing pants in public). Great fun, but at nearly $300 (with limited curriculum value), this is highly recommended only for flush women studies programs or public libraries who can afford the lower $99.95 price. Aud: C, P. (R. Pitman)
She Lives to Ride
(1994) 73 min. $99.95: public libraries & high schools; $295: colleges & universities. Women Make Movies. PPR. Vol. 12, Issue 4
She Lives to Ride
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