Skateboarding and femininity : gender, space-making and expressive movement / Dani Abulhawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abulhawa, Dani, author.

Series:

Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

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.

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

Chapter 2 Skateboarding and feminism

Separatism

Gaze

Gender regulation

Chapter 3 Skateboarding physical culture

Liquid physical culture

Struggle at the limits

Technique and bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence

Skateboarding and the social-spatial realm

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: Skateboarding's participation in the world beyond itself

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-302574-9

1-003-02574-9

1-000-07688-1

9781003025740

OCLC:

1195822017