{"product_id":"a-queer-history-of-the-peter-stoneley-9780415972796","title":"A Queer History of the Ballet","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesigned for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, \u003cem\u003eA Queer History of the Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudies include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiaghilev's Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe formation of ballet in America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe queer uses of the prima ballerina\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGenet's writings for and about ballet.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso including a consideration of how ballet's queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Stoneley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415972795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415972796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.48w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 84","brand":"Peter Stoneley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086675063039,"sku":"9780415972796","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f969f32-d6df-46f6-be61-87345a517a81.jpg?v=1769095958","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-queer-history-of-the-peter-stoneley-9780415972796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}