Women, Horse Sports and Liberation
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize*
This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national identity in Britain and its Empire.
It argues that women’s participation in horse sports transcended lim...
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize*
This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national identity in Britain and its Empire.
It argues that women’s participation in horse sports transcended lim...
