Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment

1. Introduction
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2. Towards a Feminist Ethnography
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3. From Circus and Sex .…
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4. … to Fitness and Leisure
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5. What is a Pole Class?
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6. What Not to Wear
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7. Diversity and Empowerment?
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8. ‘A Thing of Beauty’
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9. The Pole Community: Opening Closed Minds
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10. Case Study 1: ‘Empowering Women with Confidence’
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11. Case Study 2: Power Moves and Everyday Bodies
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12. Conclusion: A Positive Active Identity?
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Anthropology, Popular Science, general