Dance, Gender and Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dance, Gender and Culture....Pages 3-15
Dancing in the Dark: Rationalism and the Neglect of Social Dance....Pages 16-33
Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power....Pages 34-48
‘I seem to find the happiness I seek’ Heterosexuality and Dance in the Musical....Pages 49-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
An-Other Voice: Young Women Dancing and Talking....Pages 69-93
Gender Interchangeability among the Tiwi....Pages 94-111
‘Saturday Night Fever’: An Ethnography of Disco Dancing....Pages 112-118
Classical Indian Dance and Women’s Status....Pages 119-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Dance, Feminism, and the Critique of the Visual....Pages 139-150
‘You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about …’....Pages 151-163
She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend....Pages 164-183
Still Dancing Downwards and Talking Back....Pages 184-199
The Anxiety of Dance Performance....Pages 200-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-219