A Horseman’s World: Sex and Gender in Ottoman Equine Culture
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Horses played a key role in configuring elite Muslim masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire. Social, legal, and ideological traditions coincided in such a way as to cast horsemanship as elite, Muslim and male. Ottoman masculinity emerged as a function of the characteristics of equine bodies in general – their size, majesty, and power. And yet, it also emerged as a function of the particular characteristics of the male horse, both actual and perceived, with consequences for the lives of humans and horses alike.
Source: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
DOI: 10.17863/cam.129358
Author: Pfeifer, Helen
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7157085445
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