Oriental dancers ballerinas actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film Romashkov s Stenka Razin 1908 through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s to Visko... Lees meer.

Oriental dancers ballerinas actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film Romashkov s Stenka Razin 1908 through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s to Visko... Lees meer.

Formidable-femininity is a type of women s gender performance that I found in a woman s self-defense class. As a kind of gender performance it differs from conventional-femininity in that it lacks those characteristics commonly associated with women. docility pass... Lees meer.

This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature media and popular culture the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contest... Lees meer.

This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature media and popular culture the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contest... Lees meer.

Oriental dancers ballerinas actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film Romashkov s Stenka Razin 1908 through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s to Visk... Lees meer.

As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful the most abject circumstances. an image obsessed weight-watcher an exotic dancer and a theatrical performer. This experimental autoethnography provides a model to the et... Lees meer.

Humorous yet touching Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender. As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful the most abject circumstances. an image obsessed weight-watcher... Lees meer.

This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction between choreography and literary writing in German modernism. It explores the connections between dance literature and gender discourses with a focus... Lees meer.