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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Larsen, Elizabeth Anne, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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