Skateboarding and Femininity: Gender, Space-making and Expressive Movement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367507145)

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.

Author: Dani Abulhawa
ISBN-10: 0367507145
ISBN-13: 9780367507145
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d