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Author : Amy Koritz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015037806125
A provocative examination of the role of dance in British literary culture from 1890 to 1925.
Author : Sara L. Crawley,Lara J. Foley,Constance L. Shehan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0742559572
Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, that is, encouraged to participate in (heterosexual) gender conformity. This engendering influences nutrition practices, work and employment choices, diet, exercise, cosmetic surgery, sexual practices, and training - or lack thereof - in sports and fitness. This is an accessible, yet comprehensive, sociological inquiry into a theory of the gendered body.
Author : B. Allegranti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230306561
With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.
Author : Shuqin Cui
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824857424
Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The work presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label "feminist artist." An extensive analysis of artworks and artists—both well- and little-known—provides readers with discursively persuasive and visually provocative evidence. Gendered Bodies follows an interdisciplinary approach that general readers as well as scholars will find inspired and inspiring.
Author : Rachel Kraus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317175278
With its roots in Middle Eastern and North African dance, belly dance is a popular leisure activity in the West with women (and some men) of all ages and body types pursing the activity for diverse reasons. Drawing on empirical research, fieldwork, and interviews with participants, this book investigates the social world and small group cultures of American belly dance, examining the various ways in which people use leisure to construct the self and social relationships. With attention to gender expectations, body image, sexuality, community, spiritual experiences, and the process of identifying with a leisure activity, this book shows how people engage in the same pursuit in a variety of ways. It sheds light on the manner in which dancers strive to deal with the challenges presented by internal power struggles and legitimacy bids, public beliefs, narrow cultural ideals of beauty and often sexualized assumptions about their art. A fascinating study of identity work and the reproduction and challenging of gender norms through a gendered leisure activity, Gendered Bodies and Leisure: The Practice and Performance of American Belly Dance will be of interest to students and scholars researching gender and sexuality, the sociology of leisure, the sociology of the body and interactionist thought.
Author : B. Allegranti
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230245935
With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.
Author : Randy Martin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822322196
A theoretical examination of the influence of political and social movements on the art of dance.
Author : Thomas F. DeFrantz,Philipa Rothfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137546531
This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of dance and art itself within society. The chapters in this collection arise from a number of different political and historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray as well as their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.
Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137487773
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134331215
Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.
Author : Liedeke Plate,Anneke Smelik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135090661
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects "recall"? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
Author : Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780252074189
Grouped into 21 thematic sections, this collection provides theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.
Author : Lesa Lockford
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : UCSC:32106017525293
Humorous yet touching, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender. As 'a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect, ' Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. By exposing herself to the abject, she reclaims her body's symbolic value from society. This experimental autoethnography provides a provocative model to the ethnographer and rewards the student of gender studies with a rare perspective
Author : Mary Simonson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199898022
While female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they wove together techniques and elements drawn from a wide variety of genres and media. Onstage and onscreen, performers borrowed from musical scores and narratives, referred to contemporary shows, films, and events, and mimicked fellow performers. Behind the scenes, they experimented with cross-promotion and new advertising techniques and technologies to broadcast images and tales of their performances and lives well beyond the walls of American theaters, cabarets, and halls. The performances and conceptions of art that emerged were innovative, compelling, and deeply meaningful. Body Knowledge examines these performances and the performers behind them, highlighting the Ziegfeld Follies and The Passing Show revues, Salome dancers, Isadora Duncan's Wagner dances, Adeline Genée and Bessie Clayton's danced histories, Hazel Mackaye and Ruth St. Denis's pageants, and Anna Pavlova's opera and film projects. As a whole, it re-imagines early twentieth-century art and entertainment as both fluid and convergent.
Author : Richard J. Finneran
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472109375
A new volume in the distinguished annual that presents the latest and best Yeats criticism