Dancing salsa in post-thinking Europe : gender and sexuality discourses among salsa dancers in Switzerland and England

In a discursive context where Europe is associated with modernity and ‘progress’, salsa dancing is often claimed to offer ‘difference’ in terms of the gender roles it propagates. The multi-million salsa industry sells the dance practice as ‘sexy’, ‘hot’ and as the epitome of heterosexuality. This th...

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Main Author: Boulila, Stefanie Claudine
Other Authors: Bannon, Fiona ; Tate, Shirley Anne
Published: University of Leeds 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684534