DanceSport’s Economy of Desire
A Queer-Feminist Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350531680
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Examines how the DanceSport dispositive shapes its actors' opportunities, desires, and choices to reify the heteronormative gender binary.
MoreLong description:
DanceSport's Economy of Desire examines how the DanceSport dispositive shapes its actors' opportunities, desires, and choices to reproduce the heteronormative gender binary, focusing on the DanceSport dispositive, a network of power that spans over and influences objects (such as clothes or competition halls), discourses (such as federations' competition regulations, syllabus books, judging criteria), and practices (dancing or choreographing).
Meneau argues that the DanceSport dispositive constrains what Latin dance can look like, despite resistance and counter-movements, by excluding or invisibilising queerness and objectifying and sexualising female dancers. This shows in all elements that affect or constitute dancers' performances on the (competition) dance floor; that includes registration, clothing, coupling, partnering, moving, judging.
This book helps readers understand how the heteronormative gender binary works, how it plays out in all the elements that influence or make up dance, and how it manages to remain hegemonic. It demonstrates how the DanceSport dispositive affects and influences all its actors, all the time - how we think, decide, move, perceive others, or incorporate knowledge that shapes our bodies according to norms and productive power. Finally, by looking for the heteronormative gender binary in the dance and in the regulations, DanceSport's Economy of Desire unravels the underlying mechanisms that secure the oppressive systems and allows society at large to better understand them.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Autoethnography: My Gender Journey in Dancesport
1. The Aesthetics of the Heteronormative Gender Binary
2. Latin Dancesport's Hyper-Sexual Subculture
3. Gender[less/ed] Moving Bodies
4. Gender [less/ed] Interactions
5. Gender[less/ed] Judging
6. The Economy of Desire
Now What?
Notes
Short Bibliography
Index
