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Artistic impressions : figure skating, masculinity, and the limits of sport /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tough guys? : figure skating's macho moment
- Girls' sport?
- Manliness and grace : skating as a gentleman's art
- Women start skating, skaters form clubs, their art becomes sport
- "They left the men nowhere" : the feminization of skating
- Artistic sport or athletic art? : class and gender and shifting definitions of skating
- Sequins, soundtracks, and spirals : producing gender difference on the ice.