Performing Gender in Recreational Pole Dancing: Enabling and Constraining Factors

References

• Allen, Kerry L. 2011. “Poles Apart? Women Negotiation Femininity and Feminism in the Fitness Pole Dancing Class.” PhD dissertation, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham.
   Google Scholar
• Anderson, Eric. 2005. “Orthodox and Inclusive Masculinity: Competing Masculinities among Heterosexual Men in a Feminized Terrain.” Sociological Perspectives 48(3):337–55. doi:https://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2005.48.3.337.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Andreasson, Jesper, and Thomas Johansson. 2014. The Global Gym: Gender, Health and Pedagogies. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Anstock, Clare V., Hazel Grant, and Diva Mukherji. 2016. “Anthropole-Ogy: The (Re)creation of Female Bodies through Pole-Dancing.” Unfamiliar: An Anthropological Journal 6(1):37–41. doi:https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v6i1.1515.
   Google Scholar
• Bahri, Jacenta. 2012. “‘Fun, Fitness, Fantasy’: Consuming Pole Dancing Classes as an ‘Empowering’ Gendered Leisure Practice.” Journal of the University of Manitoba Anthropology Students’ Association 30:1–11.
   Google Scholar
• Bemiller, Michelle. 2005. “Men Who Cheer.” Sociological Focus 38(3):205–22. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.2005.10571266.
   Google Scholar
• Burt, Ramsay. 2007. The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Butler, Judith. 1998. “Athletic Genders: Hyperbolic Instance And/or the Overcoming of Sexual Binarism.” Stanford Humanities Review 6(2):103–11.
   Google Scholar
• Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Chow, Shuk Y. 2017. “The Performance of Female Sexuality through Sensual Dances among Hong Kong and Japanese Women.” PhD dissertation, Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
   Google Scholar
• Christensen, Ulla, Annemette Nielsen, and Lone Schmidt. 2011. “Det kvalitative forskningsinterview (The Qualitative Research Interview).” Pp. 61–89 in Forskningsmetoder i folkesundhedsvidenskab (Research Methods in Public Health Science), edited by S. Vallgårda and L. Koch. Copenhagen, Denmark: Munksgaard Danmark.
   Google Scholar
• Christofidou, Andria. 2018. “Men of Dance: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Dance Institutions,” Journal of Gender Studies 27(8):943–56. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1371008.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Connell, Raewyn. 1995. Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Craig, Maxine L. 2014. Sorry I Don’t Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Creswell, John W. 2013. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
   Google Scholar
• Dale, Joshua Paul. 2013. “The Future of Pole Dance.” Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 2(3):381–96. doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.2.3.381_1.
   Google Scholar
• de Beauvoir, Simone. [1949] 1997. The Second Sex. London, England: Vintage Classics.
   Google Scholar
• Donaghue, Ngaire, Tim Kurz, and Kally Whitehead. 2011. “Spinning the Pole: A Discursive Analysis of the Websites of Recreational Pole Dancing Studios.” Feminism & Psychology 21(4):443–57. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353511424367.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• DPSF (Dansk Pole Sports Forening). 2021. “Om Dansk Pole Sports Forening (DPSF).” https://www.polesportsforening.dk/.
   Google Scholar
• Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 1995. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Felien, Selena. 2015. “Looking for the Links: Pole Dancing as It Developed in the Western World.” Vertical Exploration: Journal of Pole and Aerial Movement Studies 1(1):12–25.
   Google Scholar
• Fennell, Dana. 2018. “Pole Studios as Spaces between the Adult Entertainment, Art, Fitness and Sporting Fields.” Sport in Society 21(12):1957–73. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1445995.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fennell, Dana. 2022. “Pole Sports: Considering Stigma.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 16(1):96–110. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2020.1856914.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fisher, Jennifer, and Anthony Shay. 2009. “Introduction.” Pp. 3–30 in When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders, edited by J. Fisher and A. Shay. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg. [1960] 2004. Truth and Method. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic.
   Google Scholar
• Gómez-Ramírez, Oralia 2007. “Swinging around the Pole: Sexuality, Fitness, and Stripper Stigma in Erotic Dancing.” Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
   Google Scholar
• Griffiths, Kerry. 2016. Femininity, Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing. Abingdon, Oxon, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Hall, M. A. 1996. Feminism and Sporting Bodies: Essays on Theory and Practice. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
   Google Scholar
• Hamilton, Meghan 2009. “The Poles Are In: Exploring Women’s Sexual Identities and the Rising Popularity of Pole-Dancing Fitness.” Master’s thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guleph.
   Google Scholar
• Hanna, Judith L. 2010. “Dance and Sexuality: Many Moves.” Journal of Sex Research 47(2–3):212–41. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00224491003599744.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hern, Lindy. 2010. “On a Roll: Empowerment and the Construction of Femininity in the Derby Girl Revolution.” International Journal of Sport and Society 1(2):61–69. doi:https://doi.org/10.18848/2152-7857/CGP/v01i02/54014.
   Google Scholar
• Holland, Samantha. 2010. Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Holland, Samantha, and Feona Attwood. 2009. “Keeping Fit in 6” Heels: The Mainstreaming of Pole Dancing.” Pp. 165–81 in Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture, edited by F. Attwood. London, England: I.B. Tauris.
   Google Scholar
• IPSF (International Pole Sports Federation). n.d.a. “History of Pole Sports and the IPSF.” Accessed March 24, 2021. http://www.polesports.org/about-us/history-of-pole-sports/.
   Google Scholar
• IPSF (International Pole Sports Federation). n.d.b. “IPSF Endorsed National Pole Sports Federations.” Accessed March 24, 2021. http://www.polesports.org/federation-members/.
   Google Scholar
• Jensen, Andorra L. 2015a. “Poledance i Danmark – krop, køn og kultur (Pole Dance in Denmark – Body, Gender, and Culture).” Master’s thesis, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen.
   Google Scholar
• Jensen, Andorra L. 2015b. “The Practice of Pole Dance as a Leisure Activity in Denmark.” Vertical Exploration: Journal of Pole and Aerial Movement Studies 1(1):26–42. https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/258827116/Jensen_2015_The_Practice_of_Pole_Dance_as_a_Leisure_Activity_in_Denmark.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Josselson, Ruthellen. 2011. “Narrative Research Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Story.” Pp. 224–42 in Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive Inquiry, edited by F. J. Wertz, K. Charmaz, L. M. McMullen, R. Josselson, R. Anderson, and E. McSpadden. New York, NY: Guilford Publications.
   Google Scholar
• Just, Sine N, and Sara L. Muhr. 2020. “Holding on to Both Ends of a Pole: Empowering Feminine Sexuality and Reclaiming Feminist Emancipation.” Gender, Work, and Organization 27(1):6–23. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12339.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim, Yunjung, and Sun-Yong Kwon. 2019. “‘I’m a Poler, and Proud of It’: South Korean Women’s Managed Experiences in a Stigmatized Serious Leisure Activity.” Social Sciences 8(7):1–15. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8070199.
   Google Scholar
• Kim, Yunjung, and Sun-Yong Kwon. 2021. “‘Before I Am Biologically a Male, I Am Me’: Exploring Gender Identity of South Korean Male Exotic Polers.” International Review for the Sociology of Sport 56(7):1035–50. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690220968767.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klomsten, Anne T., Herb W. Marsh, and Einar M. Skaalvik. 2005. “Adolescents’ Perceptions of Masculine and Feminine Values in Sport and Physical Education: A Study of Gender Differences.” Sex Roles 52(9–10):625–36. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-005-3730-x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koivula, Nathalie. 2001. “Perceived Characteristics of Sports Categorized as Gender-Neutral, Feminine and Masculine.” Journal of Sport Behavior 24(4):377–93.
   Google Scholar
• Kristiansen, Søren, and Hanne Kathrine Krogstrup. 1999. Deltagende observation: Introduktion til en forskningsmetodik (Participant Observation: Introduction to a Research Method). Copenhagen, Denmark: Hans Reitzel.
   Google Scholar
• Kvale, Steinar, and Svend Brinkmann. 2009. InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
   Google Scholar
• Larsson, Håkan. 2004. “Idrott och genus: Kroppens materialisering (Sport and Gender: The Materialization of the Body).” Dansk Sociologi 15(2):55–72. doi:https://doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v15i2.238.
   Google Scholar
• Lenskyj, Helen. 1986. Out of Bounds: Women, Sport, and Sexuality. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Women’s Press.
   Google Scholar
• Levy, Ariel. 2005. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. New York: Free Press.
   Google Scholar
• Lindner, Katharina. 2012. “Women’s Boxing at the 2012 Olympics: Gender Trouble?” Feminist Media Studies 12(3):464–67. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2012.698092.
   Google Scholar
• Lorber, Judith. 2000. “Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement.” Feminist Theory 1(1):79–95. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/14647000022229074.
   Google Scholar
• Lorber, Judith, and Patricia Y. Martin. 2013. “The Socially Constructed Body: Insights from Feminist Theory.” Pp. 249–73 in Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited, edited by P. Kivisto. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
   Google Scholar
• Maguire, Joseph A., Grant Jarvie, Joseph Bradley, and Louise Mansfield. 2002. Sport Worlds: A Sociological Perspective. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
   Google Scholar
• Markula, Pirkko, and Richard Pringle. 2006. Foucault, Sport and Exercise Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self. London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• McNair, Brian. 2002. Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire. London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Messner, Michael A. 2002. “Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports” in Of Sport and Culture Series, Vol. 4. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Odense Internationale Musikteater. 2010. “Verdens første DM i Poledance!” (The World’s First Danish Championship in Pole Dance!). https://mypresswire.com/dk/pressroom/24889/pressrelease/42119.
   Google Scholar
• Owen, Louise. 2012. “‘Work that Body’: Precarity and Femininity in the New Economy.” TDR: The Drama Review 56(4):78–94. doi:https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00215.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pfister, Gertrud. 2010. “Women in Sport – Gender Relations and Future Perspectives.” Sport in Society 13(2):234–48. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17430430903522954.
   Google Scholar
• Priyadharshini, Esther, and Amy Pressland. 2016. “Doing Femininities and Masculinities in a ‘Feminized’ Sporting Arena: The Case of Mixed-Sex Cheerleading.” Sport in Society 19(8–9):1234–48. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1096253.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Risner, Doug. 2007. “Rehearsing Masculinity: Challenging the ‘Boy Code’ in Dance Education.” Research in Dance Education 8(2):139–53. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14647890701706107.
   Google Scholar
• Ronglan, Lars T. 2013. “Idrætsforskerens engagement: Om hvordan man arbejder sig ind og ud af feltet (The Involvement of the Sports Researcher: On How to Work Your Way In and Out of the Field).” Pp. 38–55 in Metoder i idrætsforskning (Methods in Sports Research), edited by L. F. Thing and L. S. Ottesen. Copenhagen, Denmark: Munksgaard.
   Google Scholar
• Saldaña, Johnny. 2013. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: SAGE.
   Google Scholar
• Spradley, James P. 1979. The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
   Google Scholar
• Spradley, James P. 1980. Participant Observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
   Google Scholar
• Spradley, James P., and David W. McCurdy. 1972. The Cultural Experience, Ethnography in Complex Society. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
   Google Scholar
• Thing, Lone F., and Andorra L. Jensen. 2016. “Sport, køn og krop - køn som variabel, struktur eller gøren? (Sport, Gender, and Body - Gender as Variable, Structure, or Doing?).” Pp. 186–205 in Grundbog i idrætssociologi (Introduction to Sports Sociology), edited by L. F. Thing and U. Wagner. Copenhagen, Denmark: Munksgaard.
   Google Scholar
• Vedeler, Liv. 2000. . Observasjonsforskning i pedagogiske fag: En innføring ibruk av metoder (Observational Research in Pedagogy: An Introduction to the Use of Methods). Oslo, Norway: Gyldendal Akademisk.
   Google Scholar
• Weaving, Charlene. 2020. “Sliding up and down a Golden Glory Pole: Pole Dancing and the Olympic Games.” Sports, Ethics and Philosophy 14(4):525–36. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2020.1764089.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whitehead, Kally, and Tim Kurz. 2009. “‘Empowerment’ and the Pole: A Discursive Investigation of the Reinvention of Pole Dancing as A Recreational Activity.” Feminism & Psychology 19(2):224–44. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509102218.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar