Christy Adair

Women and Dance (eBook, PDF)

Sylphs and Sirens

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A broad-ranging account of women's roles and experience in dance, which demolishes the myth that dance is a female art form by demonstrating the way in which it is dominated by male managers, choreographers and directors. While most dancers are women, for the most part they interpret male-constructed images rather than create their own. This is not inevitable, however, the author argues; dance is a possible arena for feminist practice and women's liberation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 283
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349223749
• Artikelnr.: 54793142

Autorenporträt

Christy Adair

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Dancing Hierarchies.- Dance in Society Cultured Bodies.- The Social Construction of the Body Colonised Bodies.- The Oppression of Women Viewing Women.- The Production and Reception of Dance Titillating Tutus.- Ballet Revolutionary Women.- Modern Dance We Say No.- Postmodern Dance Black Power.- Black Dance Beginning Again.- New Dance The Subversives.- Women's Dance Practice.- Bibliography.- Index.