Gender and equestrian sport : riding around the world
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Gender and equestrian sport : riding around the world
Springer, c2013
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings together studies from various disciplines of the social sciences and humanities ( anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and literary theory) that shed light on the equestrian world as a historically gendered and highly dynamic field of contemporary sport and culture. From high level international dressage and jumping, polo and the turf, to the rodeo world of the Americas and popular forms of equestrian sport and culture, we are introduced to a range of issues that are played out at local and global, national and international levels. Students and scholars of gender, culture and sport will find much of interest in this original look at contemporary issues such as "engendered" (women's and men's) identities/subjectivities as equestrians, representations of girls, horses and the world of adventure in juvenile fiction; the current "feminization" of particular equestrian activities (and where boys and men stand in relation to this); how broad forms of social inequality and stratification play themselves out within gendered equestrian contexts; men and women and their relation to horses within the framework of current discussions on the relation of animals to humans (which may include not only love and care, but also exploitation and violence), among others. Singular contributions show how equestrian activities contribute to historical and current constructions of embodied "femininities" and "masculinities", reflecting a world that has been moving "beyond the binaries" while continuing to be enmeshed in their persistent and contradictory legacy.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments.- Chapter 1. Introduction. Women, Men and Horses: Looking at the Equestrian World through a "Gender Lens"
- Miriam Adelman and Jorge Knijnik.- Chapter 2. Flom Glamour to Drudgery - Changing Gender Patterns in the Equine Sector: A Comparative Study of Sweden and Great Britain in the 20th Century: Susanna Hedenborg and Manon Hedenborg White.- Chapter 3. Beyond the Binary: Gmende Integration in British Equestrian Sport
- Katherine L. Dashper.- Chapter 4. Becoming 'One of the Lads': Women, Horseracing and Gender in the United Kingdom
- Deborah Butler.- Chapter 5. Tradition and Transgression: Women Who Ride the Rodeo in Southern Brazil
- Miriam Adelman and Gabriela Becker.-Chapter 6. Romancing the Horse: Adventure and Femininity in Juvenile Equine Fiction for Girls
- Ellen Singleton.- Chapter 7. Women in Equestrian Polo: Cultural Capital and Sport Trajectories
- Michelle Gilbert and James Gillett.- Chapter 8. Cojones and Rejones: Multiple Ways of Experiencing, Expressing and Interpreting Gender in the Spanish Mounted Bullfight (rejoneo)
- Kirrily Thompson.- Chapter 9. We Have to Make Horse Riding More Masculine!: On the Difference between Masculine Needs and Feminine practices in the Context of Swedish Equestrian Sports
- Birgitta Plymoth.- Chapter 10. Horse Power: Gender, Work and Wealth in Canadian Show Jumping
- Kendra Coulter.- Chapter 11. The Black, the White, the Green: Fluid Masculinities in Brazilian Dressage
- Jorge Knijnik.- Chapter 12. Epilogue. A Research Agenda for Putting Gender Through its Paces
- Miriam Adelman and Kirrily Thompson.
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