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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785510603321

Autore

Patton Tracey Owens

Titolo

Gender, whiteness, and power in rodeo [[electronic resource] ] : breaking away from the ties of sexism and racism / / Tracey Owens Patton & Sally M. Schedlock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington, Books, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58402-6

9786613896476

0-7391-7321-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchedlockSally M

Disciplina

791.8/40978

Soggetti

Rodeos - Social aspects - West (U.S.)

Women rodeo performers - West (U.S.)

Cowgirls - West (U.S.) - Social conditions

Discrimination in sports - United States

Sex discrimination in sports - United States

West (U.S.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: Straight Out of the Gate: Why Study Rodeo?; A Girl Howdy of a Beginning: An Introduction to Rodeo; CHAPTER ONE. Circle the Wagons and Let's Talk Rodeo: The Foundation of Rodeo and the Myth of the West; CHAPTER TWO. The Equality Cowgirl Can "Just LeDoux" It: The Golden Age of Cowgirls in the Arena; CHAPTER THREE. Neo-Victorian Cowgirl Can Git 'Er Done: The New Dichotomized Role for Cowgirls; CHAPTER FOUR. Pin-Up Cowgirl Has to Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out: A New Era of the Silver Screen with Cheesecake and Pin-up Cowgirls

CHAPTER FIVE. Sex Kitten Cowgirl Knows Money Is in the Mane: Sex, Status, and SalaciousnessCHAPTER SIX. Back to Equality Says Let 'Er Buck: The Return to Equality in the Arena; CHAPTER SEVEN. Let's Go, Let's Show, Let's Rodeo: Ethnic Minority Involvement in Rodeo; CHAPTER EIGHT. Concluding Thoughts: "Cowgirl Up, We're More than Barbie and Big Hair!"; Rodeo Definitions; Index



Sommario/riassunto

The cowboy and cowgirl played in the imagination and made rodeo into a symbolic representation of the Western United States, but the rodeo has diverse history that largely remains unaccounted for. In Gender, Whiteness and Power in Rodeo Tracey Owens Patton and Sally M. Schedlock visually explore how race, gender, and other issues of identity complicate the mythic historical narrative of the West. Using iconic visual images, along with the voices of the marginalized, Patton and Schedlock enter into the sometim