Stunning Males and Powerful Females : Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance.

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Note on Conventions -- Preface: Inspiration -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Aims and Approaches -- 2. Maintaining Female Power through Male Style Dance -- 3. Negotiating Pressures in Terms of Gender: Male Dancers and Female Style Dance -- 4. Constructing Gender and Tradition through Senses of History -- 5. Maintaining the Representation of Female Power through Beskalan Putri -- 6. Where Tradition, Power, and Gender Intersect: Performer Interactions -- Afterword -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.

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