TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gard,Michael
TI  - Men who dance: aesthetics, athletics & the art of masculinity 
T2  - Complicated conversation,
SN  - 0820472662
AV  - GV1588.5 .G37 2006
U1  - 792.8081 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Gender identity in dance
KW  - Male dancers
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Masculinity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index; Ch. 1; A story --; Ch. 2; Pleasure, power and identity --; Ch. 3; Producing the male dancer --; Ch. 4; In the footsteps of the swan --; Ch. 5; Being a 'me' dancer --; Ch. 6; A ballet boy --; Ch. 7; A 'contemporary' dancer? --; Ch. 8; The aesthetic and the self --; Ch. 9; Pleasure, subjectivity and the 'everyday'
N2  - "Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle, and over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as drawing on life history interviews with twenty male dancers, Gard argues that the answers to these questions are inextricably linked to another question whose answer is never the same at any moment in history of any place in culture: What is a man?"--BOOK JACKET
ER  -