Description |
xvi, 219 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
12. Still Dancing Downwards and Talking Back / Zagba Oyortey. 13. The Anxiety of Dance Performance / Valerie Rimmer |
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Pt. 1. Cultural Studies. 1. Dance, Gender and Culture / Ted Polhemus. 2. Dancing in the Dark: Rationalism and the Neglect of Social Dance / Andrew Ward. 3. Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power / Cynthia J. Novack. 4. 'I Seem to Find the Happiness I Seek': Heterosexuality and Dance in the Musical / Richard Dyer -- Pt. 2. Ethnography. 5. An-Other Voice: Young Women Dancing and Talking / Helen Thomas. 6. Gender Interchangeability among the Tiwi / Andree Grau. 7. 'Saturday Night Fever': An Ethnography of Disco Dancing / David Walsh. 8. Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status / Judith Lynne Hanna -- Pt. 3. Theory/Criticism. 9. Dance, Feminism and the Critique of the Visual / Roger Copeland. 10. 'You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about...': Excursions and Incursions into Feminism and Bausch's Tanztheater / Ana Sanchez-Colberg. 11. 'She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend': Images of Femininity and Dance Appreciation / Lesley-Anne Sayers |
Summary |
The collection clearly demonstrates that dance can provide a rich resource for subject areas like sociology, cultural studies and feminism, which have all but ignored it, and it also shows that dance scholarship can benefit from the insights that these more established disciplines have to offer |
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This unique collection of essays, written specially for this volume, seeks to explore the possibilities of a number of ways in which dance and gender intersect within particular cultural contexts. What makes the book special is its multidisciplinary focus with contributions from a variety of sources such as cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, dance studies, film studies and journalism. The contributors draw on a wide range of theoretical approaches such as feminism, psychoanalysis, ethnography, film theory and subcultural theory. These perspectives are used to explore aspects of the relation between dance and gender in a range of cultural contexts, from social and disco dance to performance dance, to the Hollywood musical and to dances from different cultures |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Dance -- Sex differences.
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Dance -- Sociological aspects.
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Feminism.
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Author |
Thomas, Helen, 1947-
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LC no. |
92027878 |
ISBN |
0312088817 |
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0333513746 |
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