Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France

Author:   Kari Weil
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
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9780226686370


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   23 March 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Kari Weil
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
ISBN:  

9780226686370


ISBN 10:   022668637
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   23 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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A rich and sophisticated analysis that uses materials from literary fiction to fine art, ephemera and philosophy. -- History Today Precarious Partners brilliantly ties horse-human relations to questions of race, gender, class, and species in nineteenth-century France. From 'women on horseback' to pity for horses to the consumption of horsemeat; and from natural history to art history, philosophy, literature, and politics, Weil's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study makes an outstanding contribution to French studies, cultural history, and animal studies. -- Peter Sahlins, author of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France Weil's gentle prose effortlessly unfolds the most complex overlapping of human and equine histories. Her finely detailed research holds our most alert attention in that she demonstrates how equestrian worlds produce intricate formations of race, gender, sexuality, and species within and beyond their ostensible domain. Precarious Partners is intensely readable and leaves the reader wanting to follow its every thread. -- Lynn Turner, coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies


Weil's gentle prose effortlessly unfolds the most complex overlapping of human and equine histories. Her finely detailed research holds our most alert attention in that she demonstrates how equestrian worlds produce intricate formations of race, gender, sexuality, and species within and beyond their ostensible domain. Precarious Partners is intensely readable and leaves the reader wanting to follow its every thread. --Lynn Turner, coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies Precarious Partners brilliantly ties horse-human relations to questions of race, gender, class, and species in nineteenth-century France. From 'women on horseback' to pity for horses to the consumption of horsemeat; and from natural history to art history, philosophy, literature, and politics, Weil's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study makes an outstanding contribution to French studies, cultural history, and animal studies. --Peter Sahlins, author of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France


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Kari Weil is University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now and Androgyny and the Denial of Difference.

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