Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment - Rilegato

Holland, S.

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ISBN 10: 0230210384 ISBN 13: 9780230210387

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Riassunto

This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes.

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Recensione:

'This book pays much needed attention to a fascinating phenomenon emerging from striptease culture and the mainstreaming of sex...Holland's cutting-edge ethnography illuminates brilliantly the complexities of feminized and embodied empowerment swirling around these poles, as women from all walks of life explore this new form of exercise and self-expression. 'Poler' is now a new word in my vocabulary!' - Catherine M. Roach, Associate Professor, New College, University of Alabama, USA

'Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment is accessibly and appealingly written...[offering] a fresh perspective and much needed empirical contribution to current debates around the sexualisation of culture.' - Sociological Research Online

Descrizione del libro:

This book draws on original data to explore pole dancing classes and their possibilities for pleasure and empowerment in the women who do them

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230210384
• ISBN 13: 9780230210387
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 212