Description: Horse Crazy : Girls and the Lives of Horses, Paperback by Halley, Jean O’malley, ISBN 0820355275, ISBN-13 9780820355276, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The author uses interviews, observations, personal narrative writing, and social historical research and popular cultural analysis of children's pony book literature to examine American girls' love of horses and what this means about girlhood and horse lives, focusing on middle and working-class girls' experiences of the horse-girl relationship, as well as the lives of horses and what they reveal about their significance in human existence. She considers how this relationship reproduces traditional gender norms while challenging sexist ways of thinking about being female and mainstream ideas about girlhood, in addition to how horses in the US are a form of capital that produce profit that is both symbolic and material. She discusses how girls develop agency through their relationship with horses and challenge and subvert normal gender identity. She draws on Michel Foucault's ideas of normalization and biopower, along with Nicole Shukin's concept of animal capital, to discuss the history of horse bodies; the consumption of horses in popular culture, focusing on horse-crazy girl literature; her own horse-crazy history; how horse-crazy girls resist normative ideas about how girls should be; the meaning of horses and the role of girls’ love for them in the lives of women; and the lives and deaths of horses in the US today, including in slaughterhouses and the horse rescue movement. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Horse Crazy : Girls and the Lives of Horses
Language: English
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Animals / Horses, Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Animals / General, Life Stages / Adolescence
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Jean O'malley Halley
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Nature, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
