Overview
- Offers fresh insights into the current popularity of ballroom dancing and what this reveals about contemporary gender roles
- Combines serious leisure and feminist leisure studies with nuanced analysis of ethnographic material
- Demonstrates how personal practices are marked by a culturally informed attempt to recreate aspects of an imagined past
- Examines gender, social change and tradition in ballroom and Latin American dancing as an example of contemporary leisure practices
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (GSSS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- ballroom dancing
- Latin dancing
- gender roles
- feminist leisure studies
- serious leisure studies
- performativity
- Masculinities
- femininity
- Beauty
- embodiment
- third wave feminism
- Consumption
- personal narratives
- social history
- social networks
- identity
- intimacy
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Dancing with the Stars
- sexualities
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Reviews
“This is a unique insight into the sociological problem of ballroom dancing, as gender, culture and leisure. Vicki Harman provides an excellent combination of rich ethnographic data and critical analysis to situate the practice in the lives of its participants.” (Karl Spracklen, Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture, Leeds Becket University, UK)
“In this engaging, ethnographic account Vicki Harman gives us an insight into the many ways in which gender matters -- and is contested -- in the world of amateur Ballroom and Latin American dancing. In doing so she makes an important contribution to the sociology of culture, feminist leisure studies, and gender studies.” (Sarah Moore, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bath, UK)
“Vicki Harman has produced a wonderful ethnography of gender and ballroom dancing as serious leisure. She shows how to do a broad study of gender by getting the ‘big picture’ of its fit with the activity itself.” (Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sexual Politics of Ballroom Dancing
Authors: Vicki Harman
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-02939-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02938-6Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-66932-5Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02939-3Published: 10 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8782
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 170
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Dance, Ethnography, Feminism