Gender and Equestrian Sport Riding Around the World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adelman, Miriam. (Editor), Knijnik, Jorge. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Regional planning.; Anthropology.; Developmental psychology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Gender Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6824-6

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...

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.