Fashioning Femininities Making Masculinities

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java Indonesia tell us about the production and negotiation of gender and local identity?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malang East Java author </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Christina Sunardi</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> demonstrates ways individual performers have navigated cultural norms of masculinity and femininity to produce gender and place-based identity on- and offstage. Focusing on dancers who have participated in the performance of cross-gender dance </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>Fashioning Femininities Making Masculinities</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> provides insight into the lived experiences of men and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>waria</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> performing female-style dance and women performing male-style dance.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Exploring onstage-offstage gender negotiations gender fluidity gender pluralism and spirituality this book is ideal reading for students of Gender and Sexuality Studies Ethnomusicology Dance Studies Performance Studies Southeast Asian Studies and Cultural Anthropology.</span></p><p><br></p>