Current
Projects
Dancing Gender: Exploring embodied masculinities
- Craig
Owen
In recent years we have witnessed a proliferation
of dance within popular culture. This has been spear-headed by the success
of the BBC television program Strictly Come Dancing and has been supported
by a host of other dance shows such as So you think you can dance? and
Dancing on Ice. This cultural fascination with dance provides a stark
contrast to previously dominant discourses in England that have positioned
dance as a female activity with men’s participation frequently associated
with homophobic stigma. This context provides a fascinating opportunity
for this research to explore how young men are negotiating multiple and
contradictory discourses in order to construct their masculine identities.
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