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OverviewIn 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 least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image. Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to 'girls' sport. With a focus on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender identity has been reflected on the ice and in the media, looking at rules, technique, and style and at ongoing debates about the place of 'art' in sport. Uncovering the little known history of skating, Artistic Impressions shows how ideas about sport, gender, and sexuality have combined to limit the forms of physical expression available to men. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Louise AdamsPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781442611719ISBN 10: 1442611715 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 19 February 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews'It was the movement to music that first drew me to figure skating, and it is still that aspect which fascinates me today. But like all young male figure skaters, I had to endure the social taboo of participating in the sport. I enjoyed reading Mary Louise Adams' remarkable book about the history of our sport. I was intrigued by how gender differences affected the direction of figure skating from the time of Sonia Henie to the present.' -- Louis Stong, Skate Canada Hall of Famer and consultant; coach of World Champions Barbara Underhill, Paul Martini, and Kurt Browning 'It was the movement to music that first drew me to figure skating, and it is still that aspect which fascinates me today. But like all young male figure skaters, I had to endure the social taboo of participating in the sport. I enjoyed reading Mary Louise Adams' remarkable book about the history of our sport. I was intrigued by how gender differences affected the direction of figure skating from the time of Sonia Henie to the present.' -- Louis Stong, Skate Canada Hall of Famer and consultant; coach of World Champions Barbara Underhill, Paul Martini, and Kurt Browning 'This book offers an excellent history of the sport with respect to gender Artistic Impressions should be a required reading for anyone involved in the marketing and development of figure skating.' -- Melanie Hoyt; International Figure Skating Magazine; August 2011 Author InformationMary Louise Adams is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Department of Sociology at Queen's University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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