Horse crazy : girls and the lives of horses /

Halley, Jean O'Malley, 1967-

Horse crazy : girls and the lives of horses / Jean O'Malley Halley. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 251 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue: unexpected kindness -- Horse crazy: girls and the lives of horses -- U.S. horse history from colonization to recreation: working for men, playing with girls -- Dreaming of horses: the pony book genre and other horse stories in the mid-twentieth century -- The past that is still present: stories from my riding life in the western United States, 1970s to 1990s -- Ways of thinking about normal in the United States: horse-crazy (white) girls in the late twentieth century -- Horsey girls: heteronormativity and otherness -- Horses: life, death, and rescue -- Epilogue: the boys who love ponies.



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Horses--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Human-animal relationships.
Women--Identity.


Electronic Books.

SF285 / .H677 2019