Dark Horses and Black Beauties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Horses and Black Beauties write by Melissa Holbrook Pierson. This book was released on 2001-10. Dark Horses and Black Beauties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion write by Melissa Holbrook Pierson. This book was released on 2001-10-17. Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horse Crazy write by Jean O'Malley Halley. This book was released on 2019-07-01. Horse Crazy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healed by Horses write by Carole Fletcher. This book was released on 2011-02-22. Healed by Horses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Book Reviews 2000 write by New York Times Staff. This book was released on 2001. The New York Times Book Reviews 2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
