Pole dancing, empowerment and embodiment
By: Samantha Holland.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230210387
Subjects: Pole dancing
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements * Introduction * Part I: The Context * From Circus and Sex... * To Fitness and Leisure * Methods, Ethics &; title: Reflections * Part II: The Classes * A Beginners Journey * The Princess &; title: The Pea. Or, Exercise in Disguise * The Pole Community * Part III: Two Case Studies; title: * Pole-Da-Cise * Mens classes * Discussion &; title: Conclusions * Appendix: Table of Responses to Online Questionnaire * Bibliography .