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

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

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