Skateboarding and Femininity: Gender, Space-making and Expressive Movement

Skateboarding and Femininity: Gender, Space-making and Expressive Movement - Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding's relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through gendered tropes. Through the author's work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects, proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic practice perspective.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780367507145
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.483
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 126
Weight: 176g
Height: 138mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 16mm