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Dancing the feminine : gender and identity performances by Indonesian migrant women

Winarnita, Monika Swasti, author

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\"Migration makes a profound impression on identity (gender and sexuality, culture, class, status), its expressions, and performance. Research in this field has demonstrated that migrant communities often cast women as bearers of cultural reproduction. This is especially the case when women choose to become representatives of their community through cultural dance performances. Such performances are also a means to express the migrant life of movement and a way to maintain their sense of well-being. Dancing the Feminine is a compelling vision of expressions of gender and identity at the heart of the Asian women's experience. For the Indonesian female migrants, performing 'femininity' is frequently negotiated in a cross-cultural context. The performances that author Monika Winarnita analyses are dramas of human interaction brought up through fissures and resolutions between the performers and their various audiences. The book provides analysis of these cultural performances as rituals of belonging, which demonstrate that in the diaspora meanings of the ritual are always open to being contested\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
• Subject: Indonesians Australia Social conditions. / Women immigrants Australia Social conditions. / Dance and transnationalism Indonesia. / Dance and transnationalism Australia. / Women dancers Australia Social conditions. / Australia Emigration and immigration Social aspects. / Indonesia Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9781845196936, 1845196937

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DU122.I56 W56 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE