Titre : | Becoming horseboy(s) – human-horse relations and intersectionality in equiscapes (2019) |
Auteurs : | Eva Linghede, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | Leisure Studies (Vol. 38 Issue 3, 2019) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 408-421 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : |
Equivoc Équitation et sports équestres ; Femme ; Homme ; Loisir ; Relation Homme-Animal |
Résumé : | Leisure studies have given scant regard to human-animal relations and intersectionality. In this paper, I respond to calls for research analysing leisure as a complex, multispecies phenomenon by exploring human-horse relations and intersectionality in boy’s/men’s equestrian stories through the concept of intra-activity and creative analytical writing. Thinking and writing through intra-activity brings insights into the co-constitution of humans and horses, as well as the entanglement of other power relations and social categories. The paper illustrates that becoming horseboy(s) is a process of material-discursive intra-activity where boys/men, by transcending the human-animal divide simultaneously transcend the female-male/masculine-feminine divide. Thus, engaging materially with horses can allow and encourage boys/men to be less constrained by dominant gender discourses. The paper also illustrates the importance of studying gender, not as a separate or primary category of privilege or inequality, but as one that is entangled with race, class, sexuality, age and other animals. I finally argue that bringing horses, as well as discourses, into discussions of the enactment of gender in leisure landscapes offers a productive site for elaborating the much-debated question, posed by feminist posthumanists, of the agency of matter. |
En ligne : | oui |
En ligne : | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02614367.2019.1584230 |