Dance, Gender and Culture

Download or read book Dance, Gender and Culture written by Helen Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, many written principally for this volume, explore aspects of the ways in which dancer and gender intersect in a variety of cultural contexts, from social and disco dance to performance dance, to the Hollywood musical and dances from different cultures. The contributions come from a broad range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, dance studies, film studies and journalism and bring a body of ideas and approaches including feminism, psychoanalysis, ethnography and subcultural theory.