Pole dancing, empowerment and embodiment

By Samantha Holland

Subjects: Pole dancing, Women's studies

Description: "This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes"--Provided by publisher.