Pole Dancing, Empowerment and EmbodimentThis 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
1 Towards a Feminist Ethnography | 8 |
2 From Circus and Sex | 25 |
3 to Fitness and Leisure | 43 |
4 What is a Pole Class? | 60 |
5 What Not to Wear | 78 |
6 Diversity and Empowerment? | 92 |
7 A Thing of Beauty | 110 |
Empowering Women with Confidence | 143 |
Power Moves and Everyday Bodies | 160 |
A Positive Active Identity? | 177 |
Appendices | 188 |
Notes | 194 |
| 197 | |
| 205 | |
Opening Closed Minds | 130 |
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