Titre : | Men and Horses: Circus Studs, Sporting Males and the Performance of Purity in Fin-de-Siècle France (2006) |
Auteurs : | Kari Weil, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | French Cultural Studies (Vol. 17, Issue 1, February 2006) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 87-105 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : |
Equivoc Belle Époque (1880-1914) ; Cirque ; Équitation et sports équestres ; France ; Homme ; Performance ; Symbolisme |
Résumé : | 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 was also projected onto the thoroughbred horse, but in a contradictory way since the thoroughbred could refer both to a superior, pure race – an aristocracy – and to a superiority achieved through scientific engineering or training – a bourgeoisie. The attempts to promote equestrianism, for competition or the circus, like efforts to lay claim to the thoroughbred, moreover, implicated both aristocrats and bourgeois in a performative dynamic of bodily display that worked against the normative masculinity riding was said to promote. In the face of such risks of exhibitionism, however, the performance of men and horses together helped to refashion the meaning of virility, as of male spectacle. |
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En ligne : | https://www.academia.edu/322723/Men_and_Horses_Circus_Studs_Sporting_Males_and_the_Performance_of_Purity_In_Fin-De-Siecle_France |