Gender and Equestrian Sport

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction – Women, Men, and Horses: Looking at the Equestrian World Through a “Gender Lens”

   • Miriam Adelman, Jorge Knijnik

   Pages 1-14

3. From Glamour to Drudgery – Changing Gender Patterns in the Equine Sector: A Comparative Study of Sweden and Great Britain in the Twentieth Century

   • Susanna Hedenborg, Manon Hedenborg White

   Pages 15-36

4. Beyond the Binary: Gender Integration in British Equestrian Sport

   • Katherine L. Dashper

   Pages 37-53

5. Becoming ‘One of the Lads’: Women, Horseracing and Gender in the United Kingdom

   • Deborah Butler

   Pages 55-72

6. Tradition and Transgression: Women Who Ride the Rodeo in Southern Brazil

   • Miriam Adelman, Gabriela Becker

   Pages 73-90

7. Romancing the Horse: Adventure and Femininity in Juvenile Equine Fiction for Girls

   • Ellen Singleton

   Pages 91-110

8. Women in Equestrian Polo: Cultural Capital and Sport Trajectories

   • Michelle Gilbert, James Gillett

   Pages 111-125

9. Cojones and Rejones: Multiple Ways of Experiencing, Expressing and Interpreting Gender in the Spanish Mounted Bullfight (Rejoneo)

   • Kirrilly Thompson

   Pages 127-147

10. “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

    Pages 149-164

11. Horse Power: Gender, Work, and Wealth in Canadian Show Jumping

    • Kendra Coulter

    Pages 165-181

12. The Black, the White, the Green: Fluid Masculinities in Brazilian Dressage

    • Jorge Knijnik

    Pages 183-194

13. Epilogue: A Research Agenda for Putting Gender Through Its Paces

    • Kirrilly Thompson, Miriam Adelman

    Pages 195-211

14. Back Matter

    Pages 213-216

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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. ​

• British Equestrian Sport
• Canadian Show Jumping
• Cojones and Rejones
• Comparative Analysis
• Equestrian World through a Gender Lens
• Equestrianism during the 20th Century
• Fluid Masculinities on Brazilian Dressage
• Gender Studies and Equestrian Sport
• Horseracing and Gender in the United Kingdom
• Juvenile Equine Fiction for Girls
• Men and Horse Riding
• Spanish Mounted Bullfight
• Sport and Culture
• Swedish Equestrian Sports
• Women Riding Rodeo in Southern Brazil
• Women in Equestrian Polo

From the reviews:

“This reader contains a wonderful and very thoughtful selection of original articles. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope and touches on important contemporary social issues. … The epilogue contains a great outline for a future research agenda on gender, based on the insights of research in equestrian sport. The different topics and perspectives should be of interest to a wide range of scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” (G. K. Hearn, Choice, Vol. 51 (5), January, 2014)

• , Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

  Miriam Adelman

• , School of Education, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia

  Jorge Knijnik

Dr. Miriam Adelman is Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil) where she has taught since 1992. Much of her professional career has been devoted to the implementation and development of gender studies at that institution, where she co-founded the “Gender Studies (Research) Nucleus and has worked, together with colleagues, in developing a curriculum in the social sciences and humanities that incorporates a gender lens. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on themes such as feminist theory and contemporary sociology and gendered bodies and subjectivities, including several articles on women in equestrian sports, a subject which she has been researching for more than 10 years (Cf. ADELMAN, M. “Women who ride: Constructing Identities and Corporealities Equestrian Sports in Brazil”. In: Grenier-Torres, Chrystelle. L’ identité genre au coeur des transformations: Du corps sexué au corps genré. Paris : L’ Harmattan. 2010; ADELMAN, M. e MORAES, F.A. “Breaking their way in: Women Jockeys at the Racetrack in Brazil”. In: SEGAL, Marcia and DEMOS, Vasilikie. Advanced Studies in Gender Research. No. 12 Bingley (UK) Emerald.2008) . In 2009, she published the book, A voz e a escuta: encontros e desencontros entre a teoria feminista e a sociologia contemporânea [The voice and the listener: feminist theory and contemporary sociology] (São Paulo: Editora Blucher) She is co-editor and contributor to a volume on gender and film, Mulheres, homens, olhares e cenas [Women, men, gazes and scenes] (Curitiba: Editora da UFPR, 2011).

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