Dance, Gender and Culture
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Dance, Gender and Culture Edited by
Helen Thomas Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths' College University of London
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MACMILLAN
Editorial matter and selection Text
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© Helen Thomas
1993
Macmillan Press Ltd 1993
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 978-0-333-51374-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1993 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world
ISBN 978-1-349-22749-5 ISBN 978-1-349-22747-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22747-1 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
In memory of Lizzie and Steve McDonald
Contents List of Plates
IX
Notes on the Contributors
X
Introduction PART ONE
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CULTURAL STUDIES
2
Dance, Gender and Culture Ted Polhemus
2
Dancing in the Dark: Rationalism and the Neglect of Social Dance Andrew Ward
16
Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power Cynthia J. Novack
34
'I Seem to Find the Happiness I Seek': Heterosexuality and Dance in the Musical Richard Dyer
49
3 4
PART TWO 5
6 7
8
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ETHNOGRAPHY
An-Other Voice: Young Women Dancing and Talking Helen Thomas
69
Gender Interchangeability among the Tiwi Andree Grau
94
'Saturday Night Fever': An Ethnography of Disco Dancing David Walsh
112
Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status Judith Lynne Hanna
119
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Contents
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PART THREE 9
THEORY /CRITICISM
Dance, Feminism and the Critique of the Visual Roger Copeland
139
'You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about .. .': Excursions and Incursions into Feminism and Bausch's Tanztheater Ana Sanchez-Colberg
151
'She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend': Images of Femininity and Dance Appreciation Lesley-Anne Sayers
164
12
Still Dancing Downwards and Talking Back Zagba Oyortey
184
13
The Anxiety of Dance Performance Valerie Rimmer
200
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Index
216
List of Plates 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II
12 13 14 15
Keith O'Brien, teacher of the Youth Dance Group, leading the class Members of the Sunday class demonstrating sections of a new dance to other class members Michelle, an interviewed member of the Group, in rehearsal The end of a Group rehearsal Dawn, an interviewed member of the Group, in rehearsal Roberta Mungatopi dances in the women's style Alan Papajua performing in the men's style Big Don Mwalamini demonstrates the women's style Leo Morton performing the Wunantawilpulanga dance Denise, Joan, Jovita and Helen Puruntat
