Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance
- Editor: Risner, Doug
- Editor: Watson, Beccy
Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance
- Editor: Risner, Doug
- Editor: Watson, Beccy
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This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance. Introducing a lens of intersectionality, the book’s content examines why, despite burgeoning popular and contemporary representations of a normalization of dancing masculinities, some boys don’t dance and why many of those who do struggle to stay involved. Prominent themes of identity, masculinity, and intersectionality weave throughout the book’s conceptual frameworks of education and schooling, cultures, and identities in dance. Incorporating empirical studies, qualitative inquiry, and reflexive accounts, Doug Risner and Beccy Watson have assembled a unique volume of original chapters from established scholars and emerging voices to inform the future direction of interdisciplinary dance scholarship and dance education research. The book’s scope spans several related disciplines including gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and sociology. The volume will appeal to dancers, educators, researchers, scholars, students, parents, and caregivers of boys who dance. Accessible at multiple levels, the content is relevant for undergraduate students across dance, dance education, and movement science, and graduate students forging new analysis of dance, pedagogy, gender theory, and teaching praxis.
Contents
- CONTENTS
- 1 Introduction
- Beccy Watson, Doug Risner, and Sukina Khan
- Part I Education | Schooling Masculinity in Dance Education and Training
- 2 Understanding the Community College Male Dance Experience
- Valerie Alpert
- 3 Generalist Elementary Male Teachers Advocating for Dance and Male Dancers
- Peter Cook
- 4 Listening to Why Boys (Don't) Dance: Creating Inclusive Dance Experiences for Boys
- Helen Keane
- 5 Boys and Men Negotiating Dance, Masculinity, and Sexuality
- Andria Christofidou
- Part II Culture | Gendering Dance Participation, Performance, and Pedagogy
- 6 Parental Perspectives on Their Sons' Motivations to Dance
- Lucie Clements and Helen Clegg
- 7 Masculinities and Performativities in Native American Dance
- Robin Prichard
- 8 Dancing Between Queer Failure and Participatory Pedagogy
- Hamish McIntosh and Ralph Buck
- 9 How Do Dance Organizations Market Dancing to Boys and Men?
- Craig Owen and Vicki Harman
- 10 Fear, Coping, and Peer Support in Male Dance Students' Reflections
- Kai Lehikoinen and Isto Turpeinen
- Part III Identity | Moving Identities in Dancing Bodies
- 11 A Course on Movement Enhancement Skills for Men
- Vincent Thomas
- 12 Black Bodies Dancing Defiance: Deez Nuts!
- C. Kemal Nance
- 13 Pink Feathers: The Ballet Closet and Three Gay Remakes of Swan Lake
- Joseph Mercier
- 14 Hypermasculinity Makes the Queer Boy Faint
- Anthony Alterio
- 15 Dancing a Love/Hate Relationship: A Case Study on Lingering Aspirations
- Doug Risner and Hannah Andersen
- Afterword Jennifer McNamara
- Index
