Fashioning Femininities, Making Masculinities
ISBN 9781916704190

Table of contents

DOI: 10.3726/9781916704206.005.0001

Discussion questions and project/assignment ideas

    1. What are three ways dance performance in Malang provides cultural space in which gender norms can be reinforced, subverted, challenged, navigated, and so on—sometimes simultaneously?

    2. What are three examples of complex senses of gender that both push at and reinforce a culturally dominant heterosexual, male–female gender binary in Malang?

    3. How does the specific cultural context of Malang impact the ways dancers have negotiated gender on- and offstage?

    4. Applying theoretical and methodological approaches used in this book, what are some of the ways performance traditions in your community, or in another culture or time period, provide social space in which gender norms can be reinforced, subverted, challenged, navigated, and so on? How does the specific cultural context inform ways in which performers do so on- and offstage?

    5. How might you build from the theoretical and methodological approaches used in this book to develop new approaches that are informed by a performing tradition of your choice and its cultural and/or historical context?