The Trouble with Normal(1st Edition) Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality (Studies in Gender and History) by MaryLouiseAdams Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8057-8, ISBN: 0-8020-8057-X
"In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social and national stability, teenagers were the target of a range of materials and practices meant to turn young people into proper heterosexuals.In this s ..."
Artistic Impressions Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport by MaryLouiseAdams Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-1171-9, ISBN: 1-4426-1171-5
"In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image.Artistic Impressions ..."
The Trouble with Normal(74th Edition) Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality (Studies in Gender and History) by MaryLouiseAdams Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-4202-6, ISBN: 0-8020-4202-3
"In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social and national stability, teenagers were the target of a range of materials and practices meant to turn young people into proper heterosexuals.In this s ..."
"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."
Artistic Impressions(1st Edition) Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport by MaryLouiseAdams Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4318-5, ISBN: 1-4426-4318-8
"In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image.Artistic Impressions ..."
"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."
Artistic Impressions Figuree Skating, Masculinity and the Limits of Sport by MaryLouiseAdams 320 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-9561-0, ISBN: 1-4426-9561-7
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Character”: 1830–1900.' In Manliness and Morality: Middle-class Masculinity in
Britain and America, ed. J.A. Mangan and James Walvin, 7–34. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1987. Pawson Bean, Dawn. 'Swimming,
Synchronized.' In International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports, vol. 3, ed.
Karen Christensen, Allen Guttmann, and Gertrud Pfister, 1145 ..."
The Trouble with Normal Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality by MaryLouiseAdams Published 1997 ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-8246-7, ISBN: 1-4426-8246-9
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