Corporealities : dancing, knowledge, culture, and power /

Corporealities : dancing, knowledge, culture, and power / edited by Susan Leigh Foster.

Corporealities vivifies the study of bodies through a consideration of bodily reality, not as natural or absolute given but as tangible and substantial category of cultural experience. The essays in this volume summon up bodies engaged in practices as diverse as pageantry, physical education, festiv...

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Access Note:Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
Other Authors: Foster, Susan Leigh.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Dance > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • The ballerina's phallic pointe / Susan Leigh Foster
  • History/theory, criticism/practice / Mark Franko
  • The re-turn of the flâneuse / Lena Hammergren
  • Antique longings : Genevieve Stebbins and American Delsartean performance / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
  • Dance and the history of hysteria / Peggy Phelan
  • Lifelessness in movement, or how do the dead move? Tracing displacement and disappearance for movement performance / Heidi Gilpin
  • Dancing in the field : notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness
  • Fete accompli : gender, "folk-dance," and Progressive-era political ideals in New York City / Linda J. Tomko
  • Overreading The promised land : towards a narrative of context in dance / Randy Martin
  • Fragments for a story of tango bodies (on Choreocritics and the memory of power) / Marta E. Savigliano.

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