Stoneley, Peter. <br/><br/>
A queer history of the ballet / 
Peter Stoneley. 
 - x, 206 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Components : spaces, bodies, movement --  Nuns and fairies --  Swans --  Queer modernity --  New York and the 'closed shop' --  The prima and her fans --  Dance of the sailors --  Conclusion : traces.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7. 
<br/><br/> "A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of the ballet. Further, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415972795 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415972809 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006011583 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ballet--History<br/>Homosexuality and dance<br/>Homosexuality in dance<br/>Sex in dance<br/>Dance--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1787  / .S674 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.8086/6409