Publications
Publication details [#33368]
Adams, N. and P. Bettis. 2003. Commanding The Room In Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood. Gender & Society 17 (1) : 73–91. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0891-2432
Annotation
This paper argues that a feminist poststructuralist reading of American cheerleading defines cheerleading as a discursive practice that has changed significantly over the past 150 years in order to adapt itself to the changing and often contradictory meanings of normative femininity.