Gender and Intersectionality in Agriculture on Three Continents

These three ‘rapstracts’ – rhyming abstracts – emerged through the analysis of material that I collected throughout three ethnographic fieldworks. ⁴⁶ I spent nine months amongst women and cattle in the Kalahari of Botswana, conducted eighteen months of multi-sited ethnography investigating gendered notions of breeding Swedish Mountain Cattle in Sweden, and some six weeks on a working cattle ranch in the Canadian West, looking into gender and work identity amongst Canadian cowboys. ⁴⁷ Swedish versions of these rhymes, written after these English versions, are published in a Swedish journal for gender research. ⁴⁸ The Cowboy Masculinities Rapstract laid the foundation for my further long term ethnographic fieldwork in Colorado and my conceptualization of the Multispecies Triad, and the rhyming across continents made me see the divergent positionalities of horses and cattle that led me to work towards what I call Multispecies Intersectionality. ⁴⁹