1st Edition
Women, Horseracing and Gender Becoming 'One of the Lads'
Table of contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface and Introduction
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Terms
Abbreviations
1. Introducing the Field
2. Changing Class and Gender Relations in the Horseracing Industry
3. ‘Sitting by Nellie’ – Learning through Practice
4. Embodying Gender in the Racing Field
5. Modern Apprenticeship
6. Becoming a Racehorse
7. Female Masculinity or Male Femininity
Index
Biography
Deborah Butler worked for many years as a ‘lad’ in the horseracing industry. She currently divides her time between working as a researcher at the University of Warwick for Warwick Manufacturing Group, as well as continuing to work in her spare time as a ‘lad’, riding out racehorses for a local racehorse trainer. Her background is in sociology although her research into Indentured and Modern Apprenticeship in the Horseracing Industry – A Gendered Analysis was interdisciplinary, drawing on social history, anthropology and sociology.
