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"Kari Weil's new book takes readers back to an era when horses were an inescapable part of daily life and when horse ownership became an increasingly realizable dream, not just for soldiers, but for middle-class (bourgeois) boys and girls. It ch[...]
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Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presume[...]
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Kari Weil, AuthorIn the Nineteenth Century, France became a nation that ate horse. The introduction of horsemeat into French cuisine marks a rare occurrence in history of a change in attitude, if not taste, towards a once tabooed food. Whether or not to permit h[...]
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As the modern domain of sport put pressure on the corporeal manifestations of class, gender and race, French sports enthusiasts of the fin-de-siècle promoted equestrianism for producing, if not for revealing, true French manhood. Such manhood wa[...]
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Kari Weil, AuthorL’auteure se propose de mettre en lumière certaines pratiques équestres du XIXe par la perception de la femme à cheval. L’article aborde la subversion sexuelle, l’image transgressive des écuyères dont La Menken (qui a endossé le rôle masculin de[...]
