Jack Migdalek

The Embodied Performance of Gender

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book probes the impacts of norms of embodied behaviour as deemed appropriate for males and females in mainstream public arenas of popular culture and the everyday. It highlights the need to safeguard the social and emotional well-being of those not inclined to embody masculinity/femininity according to such dichotomous norms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138379473
• ISBN-10: 1138379476
• Artikelnr.: 55104877

Autorenporträt

Jack Migdalek is a Drama lecturer at Trinity College (Melbourne University) and Education Materials writer for the Arts Centre, Victoria, and has worked as a performer, writer, choreographer, director, and educator in Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Embodiment: Learning, Viewing, Knowing, Doing 2.
Contextualising Embodied Performance of Gender 3. Frames of Investigation
4. Signification of the Body 5. Model Bodies 6. Embodiment and Regulation
7. Bodies Getting By 8. Challenging Norms 9. Embodied Performance of Gender
in the Worlds of High School Students 10. Embodied Performance of Gender in
the Worlds of Adults 11. Conclusion. Appendices.