Skateboarding and Femininity

Taylor & Francis

Skateboarding and FemininityGender, Space-making and Expressive Movement\nAuthor(s): Dani Abulhawa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367507145, 978-0367507145\nSynopsis\nSkateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboardings 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 authors work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects,.