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.…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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
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