{"product_id":"stunning-males-and-powerful-females-christina-sunardi-9780252080593","title":"Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance","description":"In east Javanese dance traditions like \u003ci\u003eBeskalan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNgremo\u003c\/i\u003e, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity. \u003cp\u003e Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to study and perform with dancers. Through formal interviews and casual conversation, Sunardi learns about their lives and art. Her work shows how performers continually transform dance traditions to negotiate, and renegotiate, the boundaries of gender and sex--sometimes reinforcing lines of demarcation, sometimes transgressing them, and sometimes doing both simultaneously. But Sunardi's investigation moves beyond performance. It expands notions of the spiritual power associated with female bodies and feminine behavior, and the ways women, men, and \u003ci\u003ewaria\u003c\/i\u003e (males who dress and live as female) access the magnetic power of femaleness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A journey into understudied regions and ideas, \u003ci\u003eStunning Males and Powerful Females\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how performances seemingly fixed by tradition are instead dynamic environments for cultural negotiation and change surrounding questions of sex and gender. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina Sunardi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252080599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252080593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.96w x 0.59d","brand":"Christina Sunardi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437885567231,"sku":"9780252080593","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4d1082d-d7a6-4597-ad25-384d42015c2c.jpg?v=1777167433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stunning-males-and-powerful-females-christina-sunardi-9780252080593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}