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 agencyand espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes. INDICE: Introduction - Towards a Feminist Ethnography - From Circus& Sex b& - b& to Fitness& Leisure - What is a Pole Class? - What Not to Wear - Diversity& Empowerment? - A Thing of Beauty' - The Pole Community: Opening Closed Minds - Case Study I: 'Empowering women with confidence' - Case Study II: Power Moves& Everyday Bodies - Conclusions: A Positive Active Identity? - Appendix I: - Questions for online questionnaire and statistics of responses - Appendix II: - Websites of Instructors Who Took Part + Schools Mentioned - Bibliography- Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21038-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 10/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés