Artistic impressions
figure skating, masculinity, and the limits of sport
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Author
Publication
2011 - University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
73,500 words, Guess
Page Count
294 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101442643188
- ISBN-101442611715
- ISBN-139781442643185
- ISBN-139781442611719
- Library of Congress Control Number2011378908
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number670476488
- Better World Books9781442643185
- Better World Books9781442611719
- Open LibraryOL25048602M
Classifications
- LCCGV850.4 .A33 2011
Description
"In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image. Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to 'girls' sport.' With a focus on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender identity has been reflected on the ice and in the media, looking at rules, technique, and style and at ongoing debates about the place of 'art' in 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."--pub. desc.
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