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Horse Girls audiobook
- By: Halimah Marcus
- Narrator: Amanda Dolan
- Category: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 03, 2021
- Language: English
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Horse Girls Audiobook Summary
“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country–these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love’s complexity.” –Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds.
As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers.
Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social media–Halimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders don’t fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion.
Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature–including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum–Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan.
By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.
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Horse Girls Audiobook Narrator
Amanda Dolan is the narrator of Horse Girls audiobook that was written by Halimah Marcus
Halimah Marcus’s short stories and essays have appeared in One Story, BOMB, The Literary Review, Amazon Original Stories, the Out There podcast, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She is the executive director of Electric Literature, an innovative digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and the editor-in-chief of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, which she co-founded. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College and lives in the Catskill region of New York.
About the Author(s) of Horse Girls
Halimah Marcus is the author of Horse Girls
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Horse Girls Full Details
| Narrator | Amanda Dolan |
| Length | 8 hours 46 minutes |
| Author | Halimah Marcus |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | August 03, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9780063009271 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Horse Girls is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Horse Girls is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063009271.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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