Ageing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance: Finding a Balance

By Elisabeth Schwaiger

Book Overview

This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore alternatives for developing a culturally valued mature subjectivity through the practice of dance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349325155
• ISBN13: 9781349325153
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"