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Frontmatter and Editorial

Year: 2025
Type: paratext
Abstract: In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the frontmatter and editorial: Definitions of dance are manifold, involving social and cultural, historical and regional, formal and individual considerations. Dance is inevitably in specific ways bound up with issues of gender, sex/uality and ethnicity. It figures as a particularly complex site where notions of gender and sex/uality interact with issues of ethnicity, of corporeality and the symbolic, of the individual and the collective, of art and ritual in diverse cultural sites from religion to sports to the arts, from spontaneous expression to choreographed and/or ritualised performances, from the street, to the club scene and the stage, to the movies. The four articles assembled in this issue of gender forum testify to the complexity of the subject and accentuate the interrelatedness of dance and gender from rather diverse angles, rendering it as both, a possible site of doing and undoing gender.
Source: Gender forum
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7079594205
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