Dark Horses and Black Beauties

Dark Horses and Black Beauties
Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001-10
Genre: 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.

Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion

Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion
Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001-10-17
Genre: 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.

Horse Crazy

Horse Crazy
Author: Jean O'Malley Halley
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: 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.

Healed by Horses

Healed by Horses
Author: Carole Fletcher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2011-02-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416516573

Carole Fletcher's story opens on a November morning in 1975. She began this day as a striking young teacher in a happy relationship; a horse lover and car enthusiast -- ultimately, a young woman eager for what lay ahead. But a gasoline explosion changed all that, leaving her with second- and third-degree burns over sixty-five percent of her body. At day's end, surgeons warned she had a one-in-ten chance of surviving the night and that even if she did, it would be more than likely she would never walk again -- let alone ride a horse. Carole surprised everyone: her family, her doctors, even herself. After seven months in the hospital and twenty-eight skin graft surgeries, she began to ride her beloved horse, Bailey. Thanks to the therapeutic nature of riding, she slowly regained almost full use of her legs. And though more surgery and almost four years of rehabilitation would follow, Carole eventually plunged into the world of performance with a clever trick horse named Dial. Carole Fletcher tells an inspiring and eloquent story of recovery and rebirth. Healed by Horses offers a compelling account of one woman's uncommon courage and perseverance, and illustrates the extraordinary connection possible between humans and horses, and how that bond can restore, motivate, and heal.

The New York Times Book Reviews 2000

The New York Times Book Reviews 2000
Author: New York Times Staff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1284
Release: 2001
Genre: 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.

Equine ER

Equine ER
Author: Leslie Guttman
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1581502133

Anecdotes from Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital (Lexington, KY).

Chosen by a Horse

Chosen by a Horse
Author: Susan Richards
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780156031172

How a broken horse fixed a broken heart -- Cover

Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts

Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts
Author: Miriam Adelman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: 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.

A Geography of Horse-Riding

A Geography of Horse-Riding
Author: Cheryl Nosworthy
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: 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.

The Adult Rider

The Adult Rider
Author: Sarah Montague
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-06-16
Genre: 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.