Women Who Ride the Hoka Hey: Enduring America's Toughest Motorcycle Challenge

by Abagail Van Vlerah

Overview

The Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge is an endurance ride that takes participants across the United States. Riding 20 hours a day or more for 7-12 days straight, they traverse back roads, brave dangerous conditions and battle mental and physical exhaustion. Fewer than 10 percent of participants are women. They take on the challenge and they excel! Chronicling the journeys of 14 women who participated in the Hoka Hey (Lakota for "Let's do it!") from 2010 to 2013, this feminist cultural analysis relates their often harrowing stories of life on the road and draws comparisons to women in other sports.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786495856
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	08/13/2019
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Abagail Van Vlerah earned degrees from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN), University of Wyoming, and Bowling Green State University. She lives in Indiana.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Motorcycle Culture
A Brief History of Women in Motorcycling
1.  The Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge and Sport
The Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge
Motorcycling as Sport
2. On the Problematic Nature of the Hoka Hey
Problems with Ethnographic Research
Motorcycling, Sport and Masculinity
Motorcycling and Whiteness
Native American Ties and Cultural Appropriation
Jim Red Cloud Durham
2010 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge
3. An American Girl: The Women of America’s Toughest Motorcycle Challenge
Eula “Junie” Rose
Tristica Kendall
Sheila Hoehn (and Trixie)
Carla Dubois
Kristin “Jersey Pearl” McKelvey
Bryana Mason
Kelly Quinn a.k.a. Throttle Girl
Debra Langley
Wendy Battles
Jane Bixby and Schatzi Brown
Debby Pearson
Eden Mailloux
Sherie Newell
Abby Van Vlerah
Conclusions
4. Feminist Ethics of Care and Intrinisc Motivation
5. I Can do Anything: Finding Empowerment Through the Hoka Hey
6. She’s Got Bigger Balls Than Most Men, They’re Just on Her Chest: Gender, Identity and Change
7. I Cried All the Way Home: The Difficult Reality of Leaving the Road
Accidents and Wrecks
Personal Health and Safety
Familial Duty
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

An interesting and instructive read...The entire book is well-written and informs the reader—men and women alike—as it raises awareness too.”—SAH Journal

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