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Skateboarding and Femininity : Gender, Space-Making and Expressive Movement.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (127 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000076882
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.483
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Getting connected to who you are -- Methodology -- Feminal -- Girl as a radical state -- Holden Caulfield -- Roots and routes -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Girls and women holding and creating space in skateboarding -- Insiders -- Owning sexualisation -- Critical awareness -- Girl-made communities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Skateboarding and feminism -- Separatism -- Gaze -- Gender regulation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Skateboarding physical culture -- Liquid physical culture -- Struggle at the limits -- Technique and bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence -- Skateboarding and the social-spatial realm -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 'Skateboard philanthropy': A somatic practice perspective -- Skateboarding philanthropy -- Rosa Skatepark, Asira Al-Shamalyia -- Somatic qualities of skateboarding -- Self-knowledge -- Symbolic movement -- Creative self-expression -- Generosity - of deed and thought -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: Skateboarding's participation in the world beyond itself -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Skateboarding and Femininity explores the complex and varied nature of skateboarder identities and the ways in which girls and women have held and created space for themselves within skateboarder identity narratives and practices.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Getting connected to who you are -- Methodology -- Feminal -- Girl as a radical state -- Holden Caulfield -- Roots and routes -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Girls and women holding and creating space in skateboarding -- Insiders -- Owning sexualisation -- Critical awareness -- Girl-made communities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Skateboarding and feminism -- Separatism -- Gaze -- Gender regulation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Skateboarding physical culture -- Liquid physical culture -- Struggle at the limits -- Technique and bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence -- Skateboarding and the social-spatial realm -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 'Skateboard philanthropy': A somatic practice perspective -- Skateboarding philanthropy -- Rosa Skatepark, Asira Al-Shamalyia -- Somatic qualities of skateboarding -- Self-knowledge -- Symbolic movement -- Creative self-expression -- Generosity - of deed and thought -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: Skateboarding's participation in the world beyond itself -- Notes -- Index.

Skateboarding and Femininity explores the complex and varied nature of skateboarder identities and the ways in which girls and women have held and created space for themselves within skateboarder identity narratives and practices.

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