One step at a time : negotiating gender identities through dance in Singapore

• Main Author: Ong, Noelle
• Other Authors: Genaro Castro Vazquez
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70100
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study is about dancers in Singapore. It explores how these individuals make sense of and negotiate their gender identities both off and on the dance floor especially whilst doing genres that have been traditionally dominated by the opposite sex. This study adopts Bourdieu’s structural argument...