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Dance, gender and culture /Helen Thomas

By: Helen ThomasContributor(s): Helen ThomasMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Ragav Books Private Limited | ;A-184 A,Nand Gram ,Ghaziabad,U.P.:International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan , 1993Description: xvi, 219 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9780333637593Subject(s): Dance--Sociological aspectsGenre/Form: Dance--Sex differencesDDC classification: 306.43 THO

Contents:

Dance, gender and culture / Ted Polhemus -- Dancing in the dark : rationalism and the neglect of social dance / Andrew Ward -- Ballet, gender and cultural power / Cynthia J. Novack -- 'I seem to find the happiness I seek' : heterosexuality and dance in the musical / Richard Dyer -- An-other voice : young women dancing and talking / Helen Thomas -- Gender interchangeability among the Tiwi / Andrée Grau -- 'Saturday night fever' : an ethnography of disco dancing / David Walsh -- Classical Indian dance and women's status / Judith Lynne Hanna -- Dance, feminism and the critique of the visual / Roger Copeland -- 'You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about . . .' : excursions and incursions into feminism and Bausch's Tanztheater / Ana Sanchez-Colberg -- 'She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend' : images of femininity and dance appreciation / Lesley-Anne Sayers -- Still dancing downwards and talking back / Zagba Oyortey -- The anxiety of dance performance / Valerie Rimmer

Summary: 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.

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Dance, gender and culture / Ted Polhemus --
Dancing in the dark : rationalism and the neglect of social dance / Andrew Ward --
Ballet, gender and cultural power / Cynthia J. Novack --
'I seem to find the happiness I seek' : heterosexuality and dance in the musical / Richard Dyer --
An-other voice : young women dancing and talking / Helen Thomas --
Gender interchangeability among the Tiwi / Andrée Grau --
'Saturday night fever' : an ethnography of disco dancing / David Walsh --
Classical Indian dance and women's status / Judith Lynne Hanna --
Dance, feminism and the critique of the visual / Roger Copeland --
'You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about . . .' : excursions and incursions into feminism and Bausch's Tanztheater / Ana Sanchez-Colberg --
'She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend' : images of femininity and dance appreciation / Lesley-Anne Sayers --
Still dancing downwards and talking back / Zagba Oyortey --
The anxiety of dance performance / Valerie Rimmer

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.

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