Carolee Klimchock

Sex in the Stable: Naughty Women, Strapping Men, and Well-hung Horses

Date: Monday, April 2, 2012 - 5:30pm
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Carolee Klimchock (American Studies), Sex in the Stable: Naughty Women, Strapping Men, and Well-hung Horses. Liaisons between wealthy women and their hired coach drivers engrossed the public in the Gilded Age.  When heiresses ran off with working-class coachmen, things got ugly: disownment, commitments to asylums, and occasionally barroom brawls. Additionally, the performance of “sexual deviance” in the same arena as coaching culture carried a special shock value in the era.