Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment

by Holland, Samantha

• ISBN13: 9780230210387
• ISBN10: 0230210384
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

SAMANTHA HOLLAND is Research Fellow, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Towards a Feminist Ethnography	p. 8
From Circus and Sex...	p. 25
...to Fitness and Leisure	p. 43
What is a Pole Class?	p. 60
What Not to Wear	p. 78
Diverstiy and Empowerment?	p. 92
'A Thing of Beauty'	p. 110
The Pole Community: Opening Closed Minds	p. 130
Case Study 1: 'Empowering Women with Confidence'	p. 143
Case Study 2: Power Moves and Everyday Bodies	p. 160
Conclusion: A Positive Active Identity?	p. 177
Appendices	p. 188
Notes	p. 194
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 205
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