Gender and Equestrian Sport Riding Around the World /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Adelman, Miriam (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Knijnik, Jorge (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Gender Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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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• 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.