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This book examines men, masculinities and sexualities in Western theatrical dance, offering insights into the processes, actions and interactions that occur in dance institutions around gender-transgressive acts, and the factors that set limits to transgression. This text uses interview and observation data to analyze the conditions that encourage some boys and young men to become involved in this widely unconventional activity, and the ways through which they negotiate the gendered and sexual attachments of their professional identity. Most importantly, the book analyzes the opportunities male dancers find to develop a reflexive habitus, engage in gender transgressive acts and experiment with their sexuality. At the same time, it approaches gender and sexuality as embodied, and therefore as parts of identity that are not as easily amendable. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Dance and Performance Studies. Andria Christofidou is a sociologist of genders and sexualities. She teaches at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, and works as a post-doctoral researcher in the Developing Equality Allies: An Innovative Workplace Inclusion Programme. Andria's research has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, and NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.

Gender identity in dance. --- Male dancers. --- Sex in dance. --- Masculinity. --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Sensuality in dance --- Sexuality in dance --- Dance --- Men dancers --- Dancers

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Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central, yet until now ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided northern Greek town. Portraying the dance-event as both a highly structured and dynamic social arena, she approaches the human body not only as a sign to be deciphered but as a site of experience and an agent of practice. In describing the multiple ideologies of person, gender, and community that townspeople embody and explore as they dance, Cowan presents three different settings: the traditional wedding procession, the "Europeanized" formal evening dance of local civic associations, and the private party. She examines the practices of eating, drinking, talking, gifting, and dancing, and the verbal discourse through which celebrants make sense of each other's actions. Paying particular attention to points of tension and moments of misunderstanding, she analyzes in what ways these social situations pose different problems for men and women.

Dance --- Sex in dance --- Anthropological aspects --- Greece --- Social life and customs --- 793.3 --- -Sex in dance --- -Bewegingskunst. Ritmiek. Dans. Volksdans --- -Greece --- -793.3 --- -Sensuality in dance --- Sexuality in dance --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- 793.3 Bewegingskunst. Ritmiek. Dans. Volksdans --- Bewegingskunst. Ritmiek. Dans. Volksdans --- -Dance --- Danse --- Sexualité dans la danse --- Aspect anthropologique --- Grèce --- Moeurs et coutumes --- -793.3 Bewegingskunst. Ritmiek. Dans. Volksdans --- Sensuality in dance --- Sexualité dans la danse --- Grèce --- 20th century --- 793.3 Art of movement. Eurhytmics. Dance --- Art of movement. Eurhytmics. Dance

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Is stripping good or bad for the women who do it? According to sociologist Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, there's no simple answer. An exotic dancer's experiences can be both empowering and degrading: at times a dancer can feel like a goddess, at times ashamed and dirty. Drawing on extensive interviews as well as her own experiences as an exotic dancer, Bradley-Engen shows that strippers' work experiences are shaped by the types of establishments—the different worlds—in which they work. A typology of strip clubs emerges: the hustle club, the show club, and the social club, each with its own distinct culture, expectations, and challenges, each creating circumstances in which stripping can be good, bad, or indifferent. Going beyond the warring rhetorics of exploitation and empowerment, this book provides a rich and complex account of the realities of exotic dance and offers a fascinating, thought-provoking consideration for both academics and general readers.

Stripteasers. --- Stripteasers --- Striptease --- Women dancers. --- Sex in dance. --- Women dancers --- Sex in dance --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Drama --- Dancers, Exotic --- Ecdysiasts --- Exotic dancers --- Peelers (Burlesque) --- Strip-teasers --- Strippers (Burlesque) --- Entertainers --- Sex workers --- Sensuality in dance --- Sexuality in dance --- Dance --- Dancers --- Strip-tease --- Burlesque (Theater) --- Nudity in the performing arts --- Lap dancing --- Social aspects. --- Interviews --- Social aspects

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Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Human body. --- Sex in dance. --- Women dancers. --- Identity. --- Women dancers --- Body, Human. --- Identity --- Theatrical science --- anno 1800-1999 --- Human body --- Sex in dance --- Women --- Female identity --- Feminine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Dancers --- Sensuality in dance --- Sexuality in dance --- Dance --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Women - Identity --- History --- Images of women --- Female body --- Book --- Dancing

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"Ambitious in its scope and interdisciplinary in its purview. . . . Without doubt future researchers will want to refer to Hanna's study, not simply for its rich bibliographical sources but also for suggestions as to how to proceed with their own work. 'Dance, Sex, and Gender' will initiate a discussion that should propel a more methodologically informed study of dance and gender."--Randy Martin, 'Journal of the History of Sexuality'

Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sex in dance --- Sex in the performing arts --- 792.8:003 --- -Sex in dance --- Sensuality in dance --- Sexuality in dance --- semiotiek van de dans --- Sex in dance. --- 792.8:003 semiotiek van de dans --- Dance --- Anthropological aspects. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Social aspects. --- #SBIB:309H53 --- Dance and society --- Dancing and society --- Society and dance --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social aspects --- Niet-verbale communicatie --- Dance - Social aspects --- Dance - Anthropological aspects --- Dance - Cross-cultural studies