Dance, sex and gender : signs of identity, dominance, defiance, and desire / Judith Lynne Hanna.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1988.Description: xx, 311 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226315509
  • 9780226315508
  • 0226315517 (pbk.)
  • 9780226315515 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 306.484 HAN
LOC classification:
  • GV1595 .H33 1988
Online resources:
Contents:
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 THEATRE 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.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 267-290.

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 THEATRE 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.

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