Women who ride the Hoka Hey : enduring America's toughest motorcycle challenge /

Van Vlerah, Abagail, 1981-

Women who ride the Hoka Hey : enduring America's toughest motorcycle challenge / Abagail Van Vlerah. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Acknowledgments; 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 KendallSheila 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 Intrinsic 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 SafetyFamilial Duty; Conclusion; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index



9781476636115


Women motorcyclists--United States--Biography.
Motorcycle racing--United States.
Feminism and sports.
Endurance sports--United States.


Electronic Books.

GV1060 / .W664 2019