When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders
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While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or... Google Books
Originally published: 2009
Editors: Anthony Shay and Jennifer Fisher
This volume's scholarly essays tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives ...
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Offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance. About the Author. Jennifer Fisher is Associate ...
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With a dozen essays and another seventeen nar- ratives from individual performers/choreogra- phers, When Men Dance uses both scholarship.
While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded ...
Abstract. This introduction touches on themes that recur throughout the book, exploring the binary concepts of sexuality and gender often present in Wester.
Summary: "When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and in different cultural contexts.
Based on: Fisher Jennifer and Shay Anthony, eds. When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across BordersNew York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 422 pp.
Mar 23, 2012 · The book's Introduction offers a general overview of theories relating to masculinity and quickly proceeds to emphasize the ways in which dance ...
When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts.
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While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded.