Gender and Equestrian Sport Riding Around the World

Gender and Equestrian Sport Riding Around the World / edited by Miriam Adelman, Jorge Knijnik.

This volume brings together studies from various disciplines of the social sciences and humanities (Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, History and Literary theory) that examine the equestrian world as a historically gendered and highly dynamic field of contemporary sport and culture.  From e...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Adelman, Miriam (Editor), Knijnik, Jorge (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociology.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Anthropology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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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. From 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: Gender 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); Kirrilly 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 on Brazilian Dressage; Jorge Knijnik
  • Chapter 12. Epilogue. A Research Agenda for Putting Gender Through its Paces; Miriam Adelman and Kirrilly Thompson.

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