A View From the Saddle: Reflections on Gender in the Equestrian Sports of Eventing and Horseracing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Editorial 7
4. Birds of a Feather: How Rethinking Animals Helps Us Rethink Ourselves 9
5. Martha Maxwell on the Frontier of Colorado, Modern Taxidermy, and ‘Women’s Work’ 28
6. Animal Displays, Gender, Race, and Pedagogy at Liverpool Museum, Circa 1880–1920 49
7. Keeping Animals in Their Gendered: Place The Spatialization of Human–Animal Relations in the Laboratory Animal House, Circa 1947 to Present 73
8. Insects at the Intersection of Gender and Class in the Early Modern Period 91
9. Perfect Mothers and Stunted Workers: Honey Bee Sex Differences in the Co-Creation of Human and Animal Gender 104
10. Milk and Honey: Women, Race, and Captive Gorillas in Colonial Africa 120
11. Engendered Primatology: Of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists 137
12. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Erotohistoriography of Pets 157
13. Riot Dogs as Gendered Revolutionary Symbols 172
14. From Pussy Panic to a Fascination with Felines: The Gendered Representations of Cats in Suffrage Postcards 188
15. Cats and the Vegetarian Dish in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia: Unsettling Sources for Environmental History 207
16. Naturalizing Collaboration: Women, Lions, and Behavioural Field Research in East Africa during the 1970s 225
17. Of Bits and Pieces: Gendered Equine Knowledge in the Mesnagier de Paris 242
18. Reproduction against Extinction: The Value and Labours of Two Przewalski’s Mares 257
19. A View From the Saddle: Reflections on Gender in the Equestrian Sports of Eventing and Horseracing 274
20. Riding out the Plague Years with Eroika: Cyborgs, Goddesses, and the Reparative Force of Big Mare Energy 289
21. Gender and Intersectionality in Agriculture on Three Continents: A Rapstract Compilation 307