基本説明
Challenges the widely held view that club culture is male dominated and therefore a sexual-political step backwerds for women.
Full Description
This work explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can have for women at a time when femininity is undergoing radical reconstruction. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts given by a range of 'raving' and clubbing women and illustrates how new (and, in some respects, more appropriate to our times) fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Club cultures can, it is argued, come to provide important sites for the exploration of new ways of being women-in-culture. Focus upon these more subjective and experiential aspects reveals that today's dance cultures have much to offer women, and a lot more to say about femininity than is usually acknowledged. This suggests the limitations of much contemporary club culture criticism which concludes that because men tend to dominate at the levels of production and organisation, today's club cultures signal a sexual-political step backwards.
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: WHO KNOWS? Invisible Women in Increasingly Visible Club Cultures Situating Voices: Towards a Post-foundational Study of 'Women's Experiences' PART TWO: FROM BEDROOM CULTURE TO DANCE CULTURES Down to Specifics: Study Design, Method and Presentation Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine Peak Practices: The Production and Regulation of Ecstatic Bodies Conclusions: 'Losing It': Dance Cultures and Changing Femininities Bibliography Index
