Men, Masculinities and Sexualities in Dance: Transgression and its Limits

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• The Cultural Attachments of Western Theatrical Dance
• Gender, Sex, Sexuality: Theoretical and Conceptual Tools
• Matters of methodology
• Outlining the book
• References
• 2 Theoretical and conceptual elaborations
• (Un)doing gender
• Reflexivity and the habit of gender
• Men and masculinities
• Conclusion
• References
• 3 The gendering of Western theatrical dance
• The gendering of ballet
• The gendering of modern dance
• Dance today
• References
• 4 Becoming Dancers
• Discovering dance
• The pains and pleasures of dancing
• Conclusion
• References
• 5 The Practice of Dance, Habitus, and Heightened Reflexivity
• Reflexivity and habitus
• Dancing bodies, reflexive actors
• Reflexivity in ballet and contemporary dance
• Conclusion
• References
• 6 Behind the Curtains: Questioning sexuality, troubling gender
• Dance is a very gay world
• What does it mean to be a man?
• Conclusion
• References
• 7 Getting in Character: Just acting or gender embodied?
• Performing onstage: masculinity, sexuality and the body
• To be a leading man it requires a sense of masculinity
• Conclusion
• References
• 8 Male dancers negotiating the gendered and sexual attachments of dance
• Negotiating dancing identities
• Dance is butch, but not that manly
• Conclusion
• References
• 9 The grand finale
• The tensions of dance
• Men and masculinities in dance and beyond
• Limitations and Areas for Future research
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• Index