Women, Horse Sports and Liberation av Erica (American University USA) Munkwitz

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<P>*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize*</P><P>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.</P><P>It argues that women¿s participation in horse sports transcended limitations of class and gender in Britain and highlights the democratic ethos that allowed anyone skilled enough to ride and hunt ¿ from chimney-sweep to courtesan. Furthermore, women¿s involvement in equestrianism reshaped ideals of race and reinforced imperial ideology at the zenith of the British Empire. Here, British women abandoned the sidesaddle ¿ which they had been riding in for almost half a millennium ¿ to ride astride like men, thus gaining complete equality on horseback. Yet female equestrians did not seek further emancipation in the form of polit