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By Mary Louise Adams

ISBN-10: 1442611715

ISBN-13: 9781442611719

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In modern North the US, determine skating ranks one of the such a lot 'feminine' of activities and few boys take it up for worry of being labelled effeminate or homosexual. but determine skating was an solely male hobby - girls didn't skate in major numbers till the past due 1800s, at the very least a century after the founding of the 1st skating membership. basically within the Nineteen Thirties did determine skating start to gather its female image.

Artistic Impressions is the 1st historical past to track determine skating's remarkable transformation from gentlemen's artwork to 'girls' sport.' With a spotlight on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender id has been mirrored at the ice and within the media, taking a look at ideas, approach, and magnificence and at ongoing debates concerning the position of 'art' in activity. Uncovering the little identified historical past of skating, Artistic Impressions indicates how rules approximately game, gender, and sexuality have mixed to restrict the different types of actual expression to be had to men.

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