Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A Gendered Race -- The Harness Racing World -- Risks and Gratifications -- From a Family Harness Racing Business, or Not? -- Disrespect at the Track -- Working with Family -- Juggling Career and Domestic Demands -- Resisting Sexism at Work -- Women on Future Horse Racetracks -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author
Summary
Elizabeth Anne Larsen explores how harness horse racing has resisted gender equalization and excluded women from key roles. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving and succeeding in this sport, Larsen provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women's studies
