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UNINA9910450908703321 |
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Autore |
Aloff Mindy <1947-> |
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Dance anecdotes [[electronic resource] ] : stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance / / Mindy Aloff |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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1-280-52344-1 |
0-19-536378-7 |
1-4294-2007-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Dance |
Dancers |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-249) and index. |
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Contents; Preface; Towering Figures; Of Steps and Their Authorship; Music Makes Me . . .; The Rehearsal Room; Coaches and Teachers; Hands and Things That Can Fill Them; Balletomania and Other Thrills; Inspiration; Seductions Attempted, Surmised, and Realized; Critical Lines; Turning Points; From Stage to Page; Fauna; Scandals; Touring; The Theaters; Costumes, Footgear, and Hair Do's and Don'ts; Makeup; Conductors; Dancing and Related Theatrical Professions; Dancing and the Movies; Injuries, Maladies, Misfortunes, and Cures; On Partnering and Partnerships; A Mark, a Yen, a Buck, or a Pound |
Sets and StagecraftBig Pictures; Afterword: A Note on Anecdotes as Ingredients of Dance History; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Credits; Index |
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A collection of stories that aim to capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a tradition, a profession, an obsession, and an ideal. |
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UNINA9910965949303321 |
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Autore |
Roberts Mary Louise |
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Civilization without sexes : reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927 / / Mary Louise Roberts |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1994 |
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9786612070181 |
9781282070189 |
1282070185 |
9780226721279 |
0226721272 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Women in culture and society |
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Sex role - France - History - 20th century |
Women - France - Social conditions |
World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - France |
World War, 1914-1918 - Women - France |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-330) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. "THIS CIVILIZATION NO LONGER HAS SEXES" -- PART ONE. LA FEMME MODERNE -- PART TWO. LA MERE -- PART THREE. LA FEMME SEULE -- Conclusion. 'ARE WE WITNESSING THE BIRTH OF A NEW CIVILIZATION?' -- Notes -- Index |
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In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come |
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to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France. |
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