Women and dance : sylphs and sirens /
Christy Adair ; foreword by Janet Wolff.
- 1994 reprint
- London :: Macmillan, 1992.
- xiv, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270) and index.
1. Dancing hierarchies: dance in society -- 2. Cultured bodies: the social construction of the body -- 3. Colonised bodies: the oppression of women -- 4. Viewing women: the production and reception of dance -- 5. Titillating tutus: women in ballet -- 6. Revolutionary women: modern dance -- 7. We say no: postmodern dance -- 8. Back power: black dance -- 9. Beginning again: new dance -- 10. The subversives: women's dance practice.
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Women dancers. Dance--Social aspects. Sex in dance.