Jean OMalley Halley - Horse Crazy : Girls and the Lives of Horses

I am very thankful to more people than I can possibly name here. For the work of all my research assistants, who gathered and took detailed notes on sources and provided critical evaluation of my writing and ideas, I am especially grateful. In particular, I am indebted to Emily Scotti, an insightful young scholar who labored to make this a better book. Isaiah Halley-Segal helped me find important and relevant research material. Kara Johnson diligently found every possible source on horse lives and equine-assisted therapy. She is a research assistant extraordinaire. Danielle Lucchese, my talented research assistant and dear friend, helped from start to finish, throughout my five years working on this book.

I have learned so much from the scholarly work of and conversations with my many students and former-students-now-friends, especially Ramsha Begum, Bryan Joon Bickford, Erika A. Byrnison, Brooke Guinan, Laura Henrikson, Rej Joo, David Jordon, Anastasiya Panas, Amina Shikupilwa, Kristen Valletta, Naveena Waran, Heather Jean Wright, and Shayne Zaslow.

For their very helpful suggestions, I am also thankful to several anonymous reviewers of my proposal and, especially, two reviewers of my completed manuscript. Clearly, these reviewers took extensive time reading and thinking through and responding to my project. The City University of New York Office of Research Book Completion Award gave crucial support at just the right moment. My editor, Beth Snead, enthusiastically supported and guided me through the publication process. Superb librarians Mark Aaron Polger and Anne Hays helped me track down sources. Matthew Sharpe skillfully edited the full manuscript and greatly improved it. Carol Adams gave time for an enlightening interview and continues to inspire me with her work. Nan Sussman and Sarah Schulman, colleagues at the City University of New York, supported my work; Sarah kindly read an early draft of the manuscript and gave me clarifying and detailed feedback. Roz Bologh, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Hester Eisenstein, and Stuart Ewen substantially supported my work and, really, made my career possible. Jeffrey Bussolini, Grace Cho, Kate Crehan, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Amy Eshleman, Ozlem Goner, Richard Holland, Rose M. Kim, Ananya Mukherjea, Ron Nerio, Kathleen OMalley, Brian Palmer, Rakesh Rajani, Chhaya Rajani-Bangser, and Beatrice Segal helped in innumerable ways, including connecting me to sources, sharing their ideas, and commenting on my writing. My writing group and dear friends, Jaime Amparo Alves, Francesca Degiuli, Rafael de la Dehesa, and Hosu Kim, gave me rich, honest, and smart criticism. Brilliant feminist journalist and author Leora Tanenbaum gave me insightful feedback. Lore Segal, both one of my favorite writers and a beloved family member, kindly read and reread several chapters and significantly improved the writing.

Remarkably generous, Lisa Maguire connected me with a dozen or more women who were horse crazy as girls, and she drove me, and Beatrice Segal who kindly came too, around upstate New York visiting stables and horse rescue organizations. Kathleen Halley-Segal drew and painted horses, shared loving horses, watched many episodes of My Little Pony with me, and accompanied me when I went back to horseback riding, so many years after my horse Snipaways death. Getner Barn shared their insights, stories, skill, and horses with me. Many women and several men who love horses gave generously of their time, in interviews with me, to explain their experiences and their passion for horses. I am so grateful to them all.

Finally and foremost, Jacob Segal carefully read and gave me thoughtful feedback on numerous drafts of the complete manuscript. I would not have completed this book without his help. To the extent that it is well written and theoretically sound, it is largely because of him.

Jean Halley is a professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her doctorate in sociology at the Graduate Center of cuny and her masters degree in theology at Harvard University. Her book about touching children, breastfeeding, childrens sleep, gender, and heteronormativity, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy, was published in 2007. She also assisted Patricia Ticineto Clough in editing The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (2007) and co-authored, with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya, Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (2011). Her book The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets, a combination of memoir and a social history of cattle ranching in the United States, came out in 2012. Most recently, she and Amy Eshleman published Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege (2017) on gender and heteronormativity. Halley and her horse, Snipaway, grew up in the rural Rocky Mountains.

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