Titlebook: Ageing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance; Finding a Balance Elisabeth Schwaiger Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publisher

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Gendered Ageing in Theatrical Dance,er”, even though, for example, women such as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and others played a strong part in developing twentieth-century modern dance in America (Thomas 1997, p. 5). So far I have argued that dance presents a unique opportunity for examining the operations of age and gender norms, which I will further develop here.

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Valuing the Mature Dancer: Cross-cultural Perspectives,thers. Through this focus on the purposes of dancing I aim to extend the analysis of ageing, gender and dance by bringing in the function of dance as a spectacle as distinct from its function as a means of attaining a state of being.

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Constructing Ageing, Gender and Self,cturalist, social constructionist, feminist and phenomenological frameworks in order to inquire into how gendered ageing is both bodily inscribed and lived, informed by reflections from the dancers I interviewed between 2000 and 2006.

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Dancing the Self through Ageing,otiate physical, economic and cultural (i.e. representational) constraints. Finally, I will explore the notion of what can be called an ‘authentic’ mature self. However, this does not mean that I am valuing some modes of being as more ‘authentic’ than others. Instead, I ask what modes of being can b

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,Epidemiological Aspects of Crohn’s Disease,otiate physical, economic and cultural (i.e. representational) constraints. Finally, I will explore the notion of what can be called an ‘authentic’ mature self. However, this does not mean that I am valuing some modes of being as more ‘authentic’ than others. Instead, I ask what modes of being can b

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Gendered Ageing in Theatrical Dance, feminist studies (see Desmond 1997a; Thomas 1993, 1995, 1997). For example, Helen Thomas points out that, despite the fact that dance can arguably be linked with processes of gender roles and identification, dance has “not been drawn on as a significant resource in opening up the categories of gend

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