Author : Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : Girls
ISBN : 9780393322668
Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, "Dark Horses and Black Beauties" delves beneath shallow hypotheses to look at how this communication with horses opens women up to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world. Illustrations.
Author : Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2001-10-17
Category : Pets
ISBN : 0393345335
"Thought-provoking…A lovely testament to horses and women from all walks of life." —Chicago Tribune In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. Melissa Holbrook Pierson was one of those horse-crazy girls who later returned to riding with a new appreciation for the nature of horses. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, Dark Horses and Black Beauties delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connection to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us up to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world.
Author : Jean O'Malley Halley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820355364
Horse Crazy explores the meaning behind the love between girls and horses. Jean O'Malley Halley, a self-professed "horse girl," contends that this relationship and its cultural signifiers influence the manner in which young girls define their identity when it comes to gender. Halley examines how popular culture, including the "pony book" genre, uses horses to encourage conformity to gender norms but also insists that the loving relationship between a girl and a horse fundamentally challenges sexist and mainstream ideas of girlhood. Horse Crazy looks at the relationships between girls and horses through the frameworks of Michel Foucault's concepts of normalization and biopower, drawing conclusions about the way girls' agency is both normalized and resistant to normalization. Segments of Halley's own experiences with horses as a young girl, as well as experiences from the perspective of other girls, are sources for examination. "Horsey girls," as she calls them, are girls who find a way to defy the expectations given to them by society-thinness, obsession with makeup and beauty, frailty-and gain the possibility of freedom in the process. Drawing on Nicole Shukin's uses of animal capital theories, Halley also explores the varied treatment of horses themselves as an example of the biopolitical use of nonhuman animals and the manipulation and exploitation of horse life. In so doing she engages with common ways we think and feel about animals and with the technologies of speciesism.
Author : New York Times Staff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781579580582
This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author : Leslie Guttman
Publisher : Eclipse Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1581502133
Anecdotes from Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital (Lexington, KY).
Author : Susan Richards
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156031172
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Author : Miriam Adelman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319558862
This edited volume demonstrates the broader socio-cultural context for individual human-horse relations and equestrian practices by documenting the international value of equines; socially, culturally, as subjects of academic study and as drivers of public policy. It broadens our understanding of the importance of horses to humans by providing case studies from an unprecedented diversity of cultures. The volume is grounded in the contention that the changing status of equines reveals - and moves us to reflect on - important material and symbolic societal transformations ushered in by (post)modernity which affect local and global contexts alike. Through a detailed consideration of the social relations and cultural dimensions of equestrian practices across several continents, this volume provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which interactions with horses provide global connectivity with localized identities, and vice versa. It further discusses new frontiers in the research on and practice of equestrianism, framed against global megatrends and local micro-trends.
Author : Cheryl Nosworthy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443865524
This book presents an in-depth, qualitative exploration of the practice of horse-riding by “disabled” and “non-disabled” riders and their horses. Situated as part of an “affective turn” within human geography, creative and original use is made of poststructuralist theory to bring together animal studies and disability studies in order to decentre the human as we think about the social. Eighteen months of multi-sited performance ethnography “on the hoof” were conducted with riders recruited from local riding schools, an internet forum and three Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) groups. The study employed various methods, including diary-keeping, participant observation and video-recording of riding activities, in order to capture moments of horse-human relating. Through these methods, the embodied expressions of horses are taken seriously as demonstrative of their individual thoughts and intentions.
Author : Sarah Montague
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1589794443
Are you ready to enter, or re-enter the barn? Are you a former equestrian longing to ride again? Have you always had a dream of riding? Sarah Montague's The Adult Rider will lead you through the ins and outs of horseback riding today: where to take lessons, which disciplines to consider, fitness and nutrition tips, and what it will cost in both time and money.
Author : Susan Richards
Publisher : Constable
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849011664
When she agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; she married unhappily and divorced; and she'd been an alcoholic. Now, at the age of forty-three, she lives with three horses who keep her company: the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopelessly romantic Hotshot. While trying to capture another horse assigned to her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan's horse trailer of her own volition. When Susan agrees to take her, she begins to forge a special, healing relationship that alters her life. Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for everyone who has ever lost a loved one.
