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gender forum is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an electronic journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy. » Read more

(Con)Sequences. Gender-Dance-Ethnicity

Definitions of dance are manifold, involving social and cultural, historical and regional, formal and individual considerations. Dance is inevitably in specific ways bound up with issues of gender, sex/uality and ethnicity. It figures as a particularly complex site where notions of gender and sex/uality interact with issues of ethnicity, of corporeality and the symbolic, of the individual and the collective, of art and ritual in diverse cultural sites from religion to sports to the arts, from spontaneous expression to choreographed and/or ritualised performances, from the street, to the club scene and the stage, to the movies. The four articles assembled in this issue of gender forum testify to the complexity of the subject and accentuate the interrelatedness of dance and gender from rather diverse angles, rendering it as both, a possible site of doing and undoing gender.