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These are the key barriers which women continue to face and overcoming them becomes, in and of itself, part of the pleasure of attending; the very act of achieving attendance, coupled with exercise, then become ways that they don’t fail. Most of the instructors had a background of exercise, for example, Jennifer, Bobbi, James and Elena are all professionally trained dancers. Both KT and Suzie Q were active as children: Yes, I was a massive, massively sporty child – suffering from dyslexia, I failed at everything at school academically – but what I was, I was really good at running, so I used to run for my County, I used to play netball for East of England, I used to represent my team school so, all the way through … netball, hockey, absolutely everything, just excelled at sport and loved dancing, loved doing everything you know, just really, really active.
Obviously, it is an academic book and so parts of it will be superfluous for a lay reader and possibly even for an academic. I have never read an academic book that wasn’t flawed so I certainly don’t profess that this book will be without its faults; all its failings are my responsibility alone and it remains to be seen whether I will ever achieve my goals of clarity and conciseness. Nonetheless this is a book written for two distinct audiences and I am, of course, aware of the difficulties this poses, and also wish to celebrate the fact that this book will have interested readers (even if they disagree with my conclusions) outside academia as well as within it.
2006, p. 175). However, as Thomsson (1999, p. 39) points out, ‘shaping oneself as a woman, or doing gender, can be seen as a leisure activity [in itself] for 46 Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment many women’ and pole classes do, at least on first glance, function perfectly as a place to do gender and shape oneself as a woman within very specific hegemonic parameters. It is only when we look closer that we realise that pole classes also have transformative potential, and, most surprisingly, potential to improve the body image, sociability and confidence of women who do them.