Overview: Fulfills a longstanding need for academic reflection on a unique arena of sporting culture.Provides fresh insight into the world of gender and sport.Enables new assessments of the problems and potentiThis 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
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