Artistic Impressions
Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport
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2011
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-1171-9 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-1171-9 (ISBN)
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In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image.
Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to 'girls' sport. With a focus on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender identity has been reflected on the ice and in the media, looking at rules, technique, and style and at ongoing debates about the place of 'art' in sport. Uncovering the little known history of skating, Artistic Impressions shows how ideas about sport, gender, and sexuality have combined to limit the forms of physical expression available to men.
Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to 'girls' sport. With a focus on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender identity has been reflected on the ice and in the media, looking at rules, technique, and style and at ongoing debates about the place of 'art' in sport. Uncovering the little known history of skating, Artistic Impressions shows how ideas about sport, gender, and sexuality have combined to limit the forms of physical expression available to men.
Mary Louise Adams is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Department of Sociology at Queen's University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tough guys? Figure skating's macho moment
Girls' sport
Manliness and grace: Skating as a gentleman's art
Women start skating, skaters form clubs, their art becomes sport
"They left the men nowhere": The feminization of skating
Artistic sport or athletic art? Class and gender and shifting definitions of skating
Sequins, soundtracks and spirals: Producing gender difference on the ice
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.2.2011 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 photos |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4426-1171-5 / 1442611715 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4426-1171-9 / 9781442611719 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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