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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Louise Adams |
| ISBN: | 9781442643185 1442643188 9781442611719 1442611715 |
| OCLC Number: | 670476488 |
| Description: | xii, 294 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Mary Louise Adams. |
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'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 Read more...
