Horse racing
Rebecca Cassidy, anthropologist and horse lover, has undertaken an ethnographical study of Newmarket, the headquarters of British Flat Racing. It is a town with a unique class system in which human and horse is conflated – the dynastic blood lines of both species are all that really counts in the business of producing fast thoroughbreds. In many ways a secret society, it was Rebecca’s Irish ancestry which aided her acceptance into this extraordinary monoculture and has allowed her to produce unique insights into the racing world.
Gurrrl Power
Pre-teenage girls nowadays enjoy many billions of pounds-worth of consumer power. Laurie Taylor hears from two sociologists about the extent to which the identity of tweenagers (as they’re known in the market place) is being shaped by their love of shopping. Laurie discusses the issues with Rachel Russell, lecturer in Sociology, Glasgow Caledonian University: Division of Sociology and Social Policy and Angela McRobbie, professor of Communications, Goldsmith's, and author of books on girls and popular cultures.
Additional information
Rebecca Cassidy
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052100487X
Tel: 01638 663 482
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Tel: 020 7919 7171
70 Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow G4 0BA
Tel: 0141 331 3000
Rachel Russell and Melissa Tyler
Sage Publications, Volume 36 Issue 03, 1 August 2002
Angela Mcrobbie
Cultural Studies Tb
Hodder & Stoughton Educational (March 2003)
ISBN: 0340652586
Jackie: Ideology of Adolescent Femininity
University of Birmingham
ISBN: 0704405008
In the Culture Society
Routledge
ISBN: 0415137500
Feminism and Youth Culture
Routledge
ISBN: 0415927552
Angela Mcrobbie and Trisha McCabe (eds)
Feminism for Girls
Routledge
ISBN: 0710009615
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