Artistic Impressions

by Adams, Mary Louise

• ISBN13: 9781442611719
• ISBN10: 1442611715
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-20
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Artistic Impressions is the first history of figure skating to uncover its striking transformation from gentlemanly art to 'girls' sport. Mary Louise Adams examines skating's evolving gender identity as represented on the ice and in the media, showing how ideas about sport, gender, and sexuality have combined to limit the forms of physical expression available to men. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Tough Guys? Figure Skating's Macho Moment	p. 28
Girls' Sport?	p. 45
Manliness and Grace: Skating as a Gentleman's Art	p. 81
Women Start Skating, Skaters Form Clubs, Their Art Becomes Sport	p. 105
'They Left the Men Nowhere': The Feminization of Skating	p. 134
Artistic Sport or Athletic Art? Class and Gender and Shifting Definitions of Skating	p. 161
Sequins, Soundtracks, and Spirals: Producing Gender Difference on the Ice	p. 197
Epilogue	p. 233
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 263
Illustration Credits	p. 285
Index	p. 287
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