Artistic Impressions - Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Mary Louise Adams is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Department of Sociology at Queen's University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Louise Adams
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2011
• EAN: 9781442643185
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4318-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Winter sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology