Skateboarding and Femininity - Gender, Space-Making and Expressive Movement

Skateboarding and Femininity explores the complex and varied nature of skateboarder identities and the ways in which girls and women have held and created space for themselves within skateboarder identity narratives and practices.

List of contents

Introduction: Getting connected to who you are
1. Girls and Women Holding and Creating Space in Skateboarding
2. Skateboarding and Feminism
3. Skateboarding physical culture
4. ‘Skateboard Philanthropy’: A somatic practice perspective
Conclusion: Skateboarding’s participation in the world beyond itself

About the author

Dani Abulhawa is a Lecturer in Contemporary Applied Performance, University of Leeds.

Summary

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding’s relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through gendered tropes. Through the author’s work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects, proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic practice perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Dani Abulhawa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367457594
• ISBN: 978-0-367-45759-4
• No. of pages: 126
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, SPORTS & RECREATION / Skateboarding, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Rollerblading, skateboarding, etc