Male ballet dancers' gender identity construction : sexuality and body.

Male ballet dancers are often constructed as being feminine or homosexual (Bailey & Obershneider, 1997; Phillips, 2008), attributes that do not conform to the broader social ideas of what it means to be a masculine male in South Africa. Therefore, the space occupied by male ballet dancers in Sou...

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Main Author: Reeves, Megan Moya
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11874