- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (10 Mar 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230210384
- ISBN-13: 978-0230210387
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,164,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This book pays much needed attention to a fascinating phenomenon emerging from striptease culture and the mainstreaming of sex...Holland's cutting-edge ethnography illuminates brilliantly the complexities of feminized and embodied empowerment swirling around these poles, as women from all walks of life explore this new form of exercise and self-expression. 'Poler' is now a new word in my vocabulary!' - Catherine M. Roach, Associate Professor, New College, University of Alabama, USA
'Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment is accessibly and appealingly written...[offering] a fresh perspective and much needed empirical contribution to current debates around the sexualisation of culture.' - Sociological Research Online
'Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment is accessibly and appealingly written...[offering] a fresh perspective and much needed empirical contribution to current debates around the sexualisation of culture.' - Sociological Research Online
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This book, the first of its kind, examines pole dancing classes, which are held in more than 50 countries worldwide. This study draws on original qualitative data collected in the UK, Australia and the US with participants who attended pole dancing classes and their instructors. Using pole dancing classes as a starting point for a wider discussion about gendered physicality, body image and embodiment, leisure, empowerment and pleasure, the voices of the participants are placed alongside current discourses, drawing on leisure, gender and cultural studies and sociology to reveal a phenomenon with many contradictions: for example, the recurring theme of participants disliking physical exercise, but of feeling liberated, and even empowered, by pole classes. Such findings challenge the image of pole classes as sexualized and objectifying. The book also examines such topics as men and pole and the worldwide pole community.
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I was very disappointed in this book. The price is extremly high priced for what you get. I found it very boring. If pole is your passion this book is a waste of money and time.
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1 Mar 2011
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I just read the samples that Amazon allows and I have to take issue with one point. The shoes are not just for aesthetics. What the author apparently fails to realize is that the stripper shoes are designed in a certain way to facilitate pole tricks. The platforms add a counterweight at the end of your foot to help you pull bigger and faster spins. That same counterweight also helps you pull an inverted split. The long heels -- typically 6" or higher -- add to the aesthetic line, but the heels themselves are designed very differently from street heels. They are more stable and the soles are grippier. I am actually far more comfortable in my pole shoes than any other heels I own. They are the most comfortable heels I have (and I have several pairs already, after only 8 months of poling). Finally, they are generally made of vinyl or PVC, which is sticky, far stickier than leather. So they help you climb and they also help with foot holds. The stripper shoes are specialized to help the dancer work with the pole; it's not just a "I feel like a stripper" thing. At all. Much like soccer and baseball cleats, there are practical athletic reasons certain footwear is worn for certain activities. I suspect the author didn't take many pole classes, or at least, never tried the heels to discover how much they help with certain tricks and transitions.
I seriously would like to read all of this book, but no way I'm paying more than $60 for it. It's in my Wish List until a paperback version comes out.
I seriously would like to read all of this book, but no way I'm paying more than $60 for it. It's in my Wish List until a paperback version comes out.
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