Christina Sunardi
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038952
- eISBN:
- 9780252096914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038952.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter explores some of the ways in which male dancers who performed female style dance (or had performed female style dance prior to the author's fieldwork) have been pushing at dominant ...
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This chapter explores some of the ways in which male dancers who performed female style dance (or had performed female style dance prior to the author's fieldwork) have been pushing at dominant conceptual and physical boundaries of gender and sex by expressing, embodying, and representing male femininity in diverse ways on- and offstage. It argues that male dancers, in so doing, have been contributing to the ongoing cultural production of tradition and maintaining cultural space for males to access and make visible the magnetic power of femaleness. The ways male dancers negotiated boundaries of gender are shown through the ways they talk about various cultural pressures, indicating ways they contend with official discourses of gender.Less
This chapter explores some of the ways in which male dancers who performed female style dance (or had performed female style dance prior to the author's fieldwork) have been pushing at dominant conceptual and physical boundaries of gender and sex by expressing, embodying, and representing male femininity in diverse ways on- and offstage. It argues that male dancers, in so doing, have been contributing to the ongoing cultural production of tradition and maintaining cultural space for males to access and make visible the magnetic power of femaleness. The ways male dancers negotiated boundaries of gender are shown through the ways they talk about various cultural pressures, indicating ways they contend with official discourses of gender.
Lisa Odham Stokes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099708
- eISBN:
- 9789882207257
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099708.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an “ordinary” fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story ...
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This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an “ordinary” fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality, and the limits of male femininity.Less
This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an “ordinary” fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality, and the limits of male femininity.
Nick Rees-Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634187
- eISBN:
- 9780748651160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634187.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the represents of beur men in French queer cinema. It discusses the acting career of Salim Kechiouche and looks at the two early films by Sébastien Lifshitz to refute the notion ...
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This chapter examines the represents of beur men in French queer cinema. It discusses the acting career of Salim Kechiouche and looks at the two early films by Sébastien Lifshitz to refute the notion that sexual objectification would form some kind of inevitable structure to male cross-race relations. The chapter analyses queer porn video and art cinema, and highlights gender imbalance and the consequential exclusion of male femininity resulting from the disavowal of femininity among beur for cultural and religious reasons.Less
This chapter examines the represents of beur men in French queer cinema. It discusses the acting career of Salim Kechiouche and looks at the two early films by Sébastien Lifshitz to refute the notion that sexual objectification would form some kind of inevitable structure to male cross-race relations. The chapter analyses queer porn video and art cinema, and highlights gender imbalance and the consequential exclusion of male femininity resulting from the disavowal of femininity among beur for cultural and religious reasons.
Elizabeth Rahilly
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479820559
- eISBN:
- 9781479833603
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479820559.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter offers an intimate empirical portrait of the families who make up this study, including how these parents first come to view their children as gender-atypical and, ultimately, as ...
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This chapter offers an intimate empirical portrait of the families who make up this study, including how these parents first come to view their children as gender-atypical and, ultimately, as transgender. This material showcases the child-driven nature of this phenomenon, as well as the extension of “feminist” parenting it signals. It also notes important differences across cases, challenging any one simple “profile” for a transgender child. Finally, it highlights the troubles with female masculinity and the “tomboy” epithet—as much as troubles with male femininity and “princess boys”—for parents of transgender children. Overall, the chapter provides a critical empirical foundation for the chapters ahead.Less
This chapter offers an intimate empirical portrait of the families who make up this study, including how these parents first come to view their children as gender-atypical and, ultimately, as transgender. This material showcases the child-driven nature of this phenomenon, as well as the extension of “feminist” parenting it signals. It also notes important differences across cases, challenging any one simple “profile” for a transgender child. Finally, it highlights the troubles with female masculinity and the “tomboy” epithet—as much as troubles with male femininity and “princess boys”—for parents of transgender children. Overall, the chapter provides a critical empirical foundation for the chapters ahead.
