Gender, work, and harness racing : fast horses and strong women in southwestern Pennsylvania /

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Elizabeth Anne Larsen explores how harness horse racing has resisted gender equalization and excluded women from key roles. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving and succeeding in this sport, Larsen provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larsen, Elizabeth Anne, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Temas:
Women in horse racing > Pennsylvania.
Horse racing > Pennsylvania.
Femmes dans les courses de chevaux > Pennsylvanie.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Equestrian.
Horse racing
Women in horse racing
Pennsylvania
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: A Gendered Race
  • The Harness Racing World
  • Risks and Gratifications
  • From a Family Harness Racing Business, or Not?
  • Disrespect at the Track
  • Working with Family
  • Juggling Career and Domestic Demands
  • Resisting Sexism at Work
  • Women on Future Horse Racetracks
  • Appendix
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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