| Description |
xx, 311 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations -- Overture -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Spotlight -- 1. Sex, Learning, and Dance Images -- Be a Man, Be a Woman: Nature and Nurture -- Danced Sexual Imagery: Modeling -- 2. Odyssey toward Understanding -- The Social Construction of Reality -- Sources of Evidence -- So What? -- Part Two: A Worldwide Erotic and Sex-Role Dance Heritage -- 3. Sexuality -- Aphrodisiac Dancing toward Culturally Licit Procreation -- Dance as Pre- and Extramarital Entertainment, Art, and Artifice -- Love, Life, Death, and Divinity -- Seduction of Forces and Female Shamans -- Sexual Sublimination -- 4. Sex Role Scripting -- Initiation -- Movement Metaphor -- Modulating Sex Roles: Transvestism, Adulation, and Appeasement -- 5. India's Dance Kaleidoscope: Divine Sexuality, Sex Roles, Erotic Fantasy, Profanity, and Emancipation -- Sacred and Secular Merge -- Sex Role Encoding -- Erotic Fantasy -- Profanity and Further Exploitation of Women -- Renaissance -- Part Three: Western Theater Dance -- 6. Patterns of Dominance: Men, Women, and Homosexuality -- Gender and the Evaluation of Dance -- Dance for Women's Liberation: Indict, Dismantle, Create -- Gay and Men's Liberation -- Big Bucks and the Challenge -- 7. The Sense and Symbol of Sexuality and Gender in Dance Images -- Awareness of Sexuality -- Gender Signs in Everyday Life -- Sexual Symbols in Western Theater Dance -- 8. Spotlighted Performances: More on Telling Sex Stories -- Insistent Traditional Masculinity and Femininity -- Life Cycle Portrayals -- Sexuality and Shock -- Beauty and the Body -- The Nutcracker: Christmas and Unconscious Cruel Sex -- Against Their Wills -- Ambiguities and Sexual Options -- 9. New Moves for Women -- Two Temperaments--One Woman -- Roles of Stature -- Men and Women Sharing -- Guiltless Female Protagonists -- Identity as Victim -- Female Bonding and Lesbianism -- Role Reversal and Androgyny -- Asexual Female Dance -- Multiple Roles? -- 10. New Moves for Men -- Derogation of Women -- Unisexuality and Role Reversal -- Gay Men? -- 11. Coda -- Spotlight -- Global Occurrence -- Transformations: The American Scene -- New Directions -- Appendix: Coding Variables for Gender Patterns in Dance -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Analysis |
Dancing - Anthropological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 267-290 |
| Subject |
Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
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Dance -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Dance -- Social aspects.
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Sex in dance.
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| LC no. |
87023784 |
| ISBN |
0226315509 |
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0226315517 (paperback) |
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