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Dancing the Feminine: Gender & Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women (Asian and Asian American Studies)
Monika Swasti Winarnita
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Description for Dancing the Feminine: Gender & Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women (Asian and Asian American Studies)
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1FMN; ASD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
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 womens experience. For the Indonesian female migrants, ... Read more
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 womens experience. For the Indonesian female migrants, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198183
SKU
V9781845198183
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-29
About Monika Swasti Winarnita
Monika Swasti Winarnita is a Research Associate of Anthropology at La Trobe University Australia and a Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her published work covers Indonesian, Malay and Australian studies, migration, transnational families, diaspora politics, identity, gender and cultural performance.
Reviews for Dancing the Feminine: Gender & Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women (Asian and Asian American Studies)
Monika Winarnitas work provides an intellectually rigorous, insightful, original and engaging examination of the pursuit of traditional, authentic Indonesian dance performances by Indonesian immigrant women in Perth, Western Australia.
Professor Henry Spiller (ethnomusicology) and Chair, Department of Music, UC Davis
Professor Henry Spiller (ethnomusicology) and Chair, Department of Music, UC Davis