Wrangling women : humor and gender in the American west / Kristin M. McAndrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAndrews, Kristin M., 1951-

Contributor:

Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horsemen and horsewomen--Washington (State)--Winthrop.

Horsemen and horsewomen.

Sexism--Washington (State)--Winthrop.

Sexism.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Washington (State)--Winthrop.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Division of labor--Washington (State)--Winthrop.

Division of labor.

Washington (State)--Winthrop.

Physical Description:

xvi, 175 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2006]

Summary:

While my subjects did not gossip about other women in the valley, for example, people had opinions about how certain women handled animals - from cats to cattle. Virginia Bennett told me that some people thought she treated her horses like pets - very well-trained pets. Virginia could stand on the back of her stock-still horse with her boots on.... Shiril Cairns also knew that people thought her horses were spoiled - not that she cared one bit: "One of the vets down in Twisp described my horses as poodles because they are so mellow. I don't like a horse I can't catch. Up here people say 'You don't touch that horse until he's three! Yah break him rough. If ya gotta have a board meeting with him, ya get yourself a two by four!' Sure, if you want broken bones, do it that way! Yeah, then you can prove yourself and just how strong, etcetera, you are. It's all in the approach. I think women are different. I think women take less of the conqueror attitude and more of a cooperative attitude with horses."

Contents:

Introduction: Cowgirls-Subversive Implications 1

1 Tourism, Gender, and Images of the American West 17

2 A Woman's Code of the West 46

3 Tools of the Trade: Humor and Horse Sense 86

4 "Nothing to Lose": A Horsewoman and a Tall Tale 124

Epilogue: Jumping Fences 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-166) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

ISBN:

0874176832

9780874176834

OCLC:

64624817