Pushing at the boundaries of the body: Cultural politics and cross-gender dance in East Java

Cross-gender dance in East Java has captivated me as a strategy that performers use to negotiate multiple ideas about manhood and womanhood as well as tensions between official ideologies and social realities, expectations about performers’ onstage personas and offstage lives, and competing aestheti...

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Main Author: Christina Sunardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BRILL 2009-12-01
Series:Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/3657