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Culture on ice : figure skating & cultural meaning
- Title
- Culture on ice : figure skating & cultural meaning / Ellyn Kestnbaum.
- Author
- Kestnbaum, Ellyn.
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 357 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Figure skating & cultural meaning
- Figure skating and cultural meaning
- Subject
- Note
- Appendix, The technical basis of figure skating, includes descriptions of moves in figure skating.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-345) and index (p. [347]-357).
- Contents
- Part one, Meaning and figure skating. A general theory of meaning -- Skating as a signifying system.
- Part two, How figure skating and its meanings developed. The beginnings of skating on ice -- Issues in the development of figure skating.
- Part three, Cultural meanings of ladies' figure skating. Critiques of skating's feminine ideal -- Girls versus ladies.
- Part four, Masculinity on edge. Figure skating and "real" manhood -- Out of the closet.
- Part five, Compulsory mating dances. Defining duos -- Gendered meanings in crisis.
- Part six, Spectatorship. Intimate pleasures: Skating fandom.
- Call Number
- *MGX 03-5180
- ISBN
- 081956642X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0819566411 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003041145
- OCLC
- 51607234
- NYPY05-B10028
- Author
- Kestnbaum, Ellyn.
- Title
- Culture on ice : figure skating & cultural meaning / Ellyn Kestnbaum.
- Imprint
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-345) and index (p. [347]-357).
- Research Call Number
- *MGX 03-5180