Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment
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.
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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.
List of FiguresIntroduction 11 Towards a Feminist Ethnography 82 From Circus and Sex 253 ... to Fitness and Leisure 434 What is a Pole Class? 605 What Not to Wear 786 Diversity and Empowerment? 927 'A Thing of Beauty' 1108 The Pole Community: Opening Closed Minds 1309 Case Study 1: 'Empowering Women with Confidence' 14310 Case Study 2: Power Moves and Everyday Bodies 160Conclusion: A Positive Active Identity? 177Appendices 188Notes 194Bibliography 197Index 205
