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Informationen zum Autor Tracey Owens Patton is director of African American and diaspora studies as well as professor of communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The University of Wyoming. Sally M. Schedlock received her BA and MA degrees in communication from the University of Wyoming. She has rodeoed since she was a small child and continues to barrel race. Klappentext The lure of cowgirls and cowboys has hooked the American imagination with the lure of freedom and adventure since the turn of the twentieth century. The cowboy and cowgirl played in the imagination and made rodeo into a symbolic representation of the Western United States. As a sport that is emblematic of all things "Western," rodeo is a phenomenon that has since transcended into popular culture. Rodeo's attraction has even spanned oceans and lives in the imaginations of many around the world. From the modest start of this fantastic sport in open fields to celebrate the end of a long cattle drive or to settle a friendly "who's the best" bet between neighboring ranches, rodeo truly has grown into an edge-of-the-seat, money-drawing, and crowd-cheering favorite pastime. However, rodeo has diverse history that largely remains unaccounted for, unexamined, and silenced. In Gender, Whiteness and Power in Rodeo Tracey Owens Patton and Sally M. Schedlock visually explore how race, gender, and other issues of identity complicate the mythic historical narrative of the West. The authors examine the experiences of ethnic minorities, specifically Latinos, American Indians, and African Americans, and women who have continued to be marginalized in rodeo. Throughout the book, Patton and Schedlock questioned the binary divisions in rodeo that exists between women and men, and between ethnic minorities and Whites-divisions that have become naturalized in rodeo and in the mind of the general public. Using iconic visual images, along with the voices of the marginalized, Patton and Schedlock enter into the sometimes acrimonious debate of cowgirls and ethnic minorities in rodeo. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Why Study Rodeo A Girl Howdy of a Beginning: An Introduction to RodeoChapter One: Circle the Wagons and Let's Talk Rodeo: The Foundation of Rodeo and the Myth of the WestChapter Two: The Equality Cowgirl Can Just LeDoux It: The Golden Age of Cowgirls in the ArenaChapter Three: Neo-Victorian Cowgirl Can Git 'Er Done: The New Dichotomized Role for CowgirlsChapter Four: Pin-Up Cowgirl has to Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out: A New Era of the Silver Screen with Cheesecake and Pin-up CowgirlsChapter Five: Sex Kitten Cowgirl Knows Money Is in the Mane: Sex, Status, and SalaciousnessChapter Six: Back to Equality Says Let 'Er Buck: The Return to Equality in the ArenaChapter Seven: Let's Go, Let's Show, Let's Rodeo: Ethnic Minority Involvement in RodeoChapter Eight: Concluding Thoughts: Cowgirl Up, We're More than Barbie and Big Hair! Rodeo Definitions...
