Gender & Dance
                                                                             

Books:

1987         To Dance Is Human:  A Theory of Nonverbal Communication.  Revised 1979 edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1983         The Performer-Audience Connection:  Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society. Austin and London: University of Texas Press (Choice, outstanding book)

1988         Dance, Sex, and Gender:  Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1999         Partnering Dance and Education:  Intelligent Moves for Changing Times.  Champaign, IL:  Human Kinetics Press

2006         Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press [Rowman and Littlefield]

---             Nigeria's Ubakala Igbo Dance:  Life, Death, and the Women's War,  in preparation

---             Naked Truth: A Christian Right, Strip Clubs and Democracy, in progress

Articles:

1977         "African Dance and the Warrior Tradition," in Ali A. Mazrui, ed., The Warrior Tradition in Modern Africa.  Special Issue of Journal of Asian and African Studies 12(1-2):111-133.  Also Leiden:  E.J. Brill (book).  Material in To Dance Is Human.

1979         "Dance and its Social Structure:  The Ubakala of Nigeria," Journal of Communication (The Social Meanings of Art) 29(4):184-191.  Material in To Dance Is Human

1982         "Dance and the Women's War," Dance Research Journal 14(1-2):25-28.  Material in To Dance Is Human, Dance, Sex, and Gender, and Dancing for Health

1983         "Dance and the Cultural Heritage," Proceedings of the International Conference on Children and Youth Dancing, Stockholm, 1982. Stockholm: Swedish Division of Dance and the Child, UNESCO affiliated

1986         "Ballets that Shock," Stagebill, Spring (Detroit Book VII), pp. 22, 24, 27, 30

1986         "Movement in African Performance," in Bob Fleshman, ed., Theatrical Movement:  A Bibliographical Anthology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, pp. 561-585

1986         "Interethnic Communication in Children's Own Dance, Play, and Protest," in Young Y. Kim, ed. Interethnic Communication (Vol. 10, International and Intercultural Communication Annual). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp. 176-198

1987         "Patterns of Dominance:  Men, Women, and Homosexuality in Dance," The Drama Review 113, 31(1):24-47.  Material in Dance, Sex and Gender and in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson, eds. Homosexuality and Homosexuals in the Arts.  Vol. 4 of 13-volume Studies in Homosexuality, New York: Garland, pp. 198-223, 1992

1987         "Gender Language Onstage: Moves, New Moves, Countermoves," Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 77(1):18-26

1988         "Do We Teach Sex Roles Through Dance Education?" Dance Teacher Now 10(7):38-41

1989         "African Dance Frame by Frame: Revelation of Sex Roles Through Distinctive Feature Analysis and Comments on Field Research, Film, and Notation," Journal of Black Studies 19(4):422-441; abstracted in Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 1(2):13, 1989

1990         "Dance and Women's Protest in Nigeria and the United States," in Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg, eds., Women and Social Protest. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 333-345

1990         "Advertising With Dance," in Lynnette Y. Overby and James H. Humphrey, eds., Dance:  Current Selected Research, II.  New York:  AMS Press, pp. 117‑136

1992         "Tradition, Challenge, and the Backlash: Gender Education Through Dance," in Laurence Senelick, ed., Gender and Performance. Hanover, NH: The University Press of New England, pp. 223-238

1992         "Moving Messages:  Identity and Desire in Dance," in James Lull, ed., Popular Music and Communication, 2nd Edition. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp. 176-195

1992         "Shock Troupes:  Helms, Kitty Kat, and So What?" Ballet Review 20(3):85-93

1993         "Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status," in Helen Thomas, ed., Dance, Gender and Culture.  London: Macmillan, pp. 119-127

1996         "In Defense of Exotic Dance," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 1(3):70, 72

1996         "Exotic Dance, the First Amendment, and Court," AnthroWatch 4(2):12

1997         "Witness to Injustice?" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 2(4):80

1997         "Rasta Thomas:  Extraordinary Boy Next Door," Dance Teacher Now 19(1):65-72

1997         Creativity in Ubakala, Dallas Youth, and Exotic Dance," in R. Keith Sawyer, ed. Creativity in Performance, R. Keith Sawyer, ed.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, pp. 141-167 

1997         "Nilimma Devi's Touch of India in America," Dance Teacher Now 19(2):97-100, 102

1998         "Undressing the First Amendment and Corsetting the Striptease Dancer," The Drama Review, T158, 42(2):38-69, Summer

1998         "Analysis: The First Amendment and Exotic Dance," National Campaign for Freedom of Expression Quarterly, Autumn, p. 8

1998         "Exotic Dance in Seattle:  The First Amendment and Anthropology," AnthroWatch 6(1):4-6

1998         "In the Courtroom:  The Right to Dance!" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(1):20

1998         "Defining Dance in the Courtroom," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(3):29

1998         Interview by Vladimir Anguelov: "Die Reinheit der Nachtclubtanzerin und die Erotik der Ballerina," Tanz Affiche 80:28-31

1998         "Feminist Perspectives on Classical Indian Dance," in David Waterhouse, ed., Dance of India (South Asian Studies Papers). Toronto: University of Toronto Graduate Centre for South Asian Studies, pp. 193-231

1999         "Toying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment," in Stuart Reifel, ed., Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 2. Greenwich, CT., Ablex, pp. 37-55

1999         "The First Amendment and Defense of Exotic Dance," Anthropology Newsletter 40(4):50-51

1999         "Club News: Washington, D.C. Bureau," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(4):74-76

1999         "Here's the Naked Truth," Gazette Community Forum," p. A-17

1999         "Washington, D.C. Bureau," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(4):74-76

1999         "Club Owners--Are You Harassing or Discriminating Against Your Dancers?" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(1):61

1999         "Arrests In A Family Business," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(2):20-21

1999         "The Naked Truth," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(2):138-139

1999         "Dance," in David Levinson, James Ponzetti, and Peter Jorgensen, eds., Encyclopedia of Human Emotions, Vol. 1.  New York: Macmillan, pp. 171-177

2000         “Helping Dancers, Helping Business?” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(1):52

2000         “Club Wins First Round of Nudity Battle,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(4):12-13

2001        “Ballet to Exotic Dance – Under the Censorship Watch,” in Janice LaPointe-Crump and Juliette Crone-Willis, compilers, Dancing in the Millennium: An International Conference, 2000 Proceedings, Washington, DC, pp. 230-234

2001         “The Language of Dance,” JOPERD 72(4):40-45, 53

2001         “Wrapping Nudity In a Cloak of Law,” New York Times, July 29, pp. 14, 18

2001         “What’s in a Name?  A ? of Life or Death & Acceptance or Stigma,” Adult Entertainment Advocate 5(1):2, January 1

2001         “Still Dancing Nude at Class Act,” with Randall D.B. Tigue, Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(7):8-9, 60

2001*        “Reality and Myth:  What Neighbors Say About Exotic Dance Clubs: A Case Study on Charlotte, North Carolina,” Charlotte, NC: Tarheel Entertainment Association, submitted to the City of Charlotte Zoning Board

2002         “Book Perpetuates Dangerous Myths,” ACE National Newsletter, 2(2):1-2

2002         “The Stigma of Exotic Dance:  Sexy, Not Sex,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin, 7(1): 37

2002*        "Dance Under the Censorship Watch," Journal of Arts Management Law and Society 29(1):1-13

2002         “American Planning Association Volume Would ‘Plan’ Adult Businesses into Oblivion,” (Legal News, Book Review) Adult Video News (AVN) 18(4):218

2002         “If This Is Stripping, What Is Adult Entertainment,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin, 7(3):62

2002         “Exotic Dance Industry Under Fire,” Free Speaker, January, pp. 8-9

2002         “Whose Aesthetics Determine Artistic Merit?” DCA (Dance Critics Association) News,  Summer/Autumn, pp. 7-15

2003         “History of Burlesque on Display at Exotic World Museum,” Exotic Dancer’s Club Bulletin, Feb/March, p. 65

2003         “Review of Eric Damian Kelly and Connie Cooper, Everything you always wanted to know about regulating sex businesses,” Journal of Planning Literature 17(3):45-46

2003         “Exotic Dance Adult Entertainment: Ethnography Challenges False Mythology,” City and Society 15(2):165-193

2003       “Aesthetics -- Whose Notions of Appropriateness & Competency, What Are They and How Do We Know?” World of Music, Special issue: Cross-Cultural Aesthetics, eds., D.A.                       Avorgbedor and M. P. Baumann, 45(3):29-54

2003        “A Room With a View. Undercover Detectives Said the Dancing at Sugar Daddy’s Had ‘No Artistic Merit.’ A Jury Disagrees,” Exotic Dancer’s Club Bulletin, June p. 30.

2003         “Who Speaks for Gays in Dance?” Dance Research Journal 34(3), Summer

2003        “Very Bare Bones (Review of Sisters of Salome),” Dance Magazine 77(11):80

2003        “The Supremes Call the Tune” (Supreme Court on Diversity and Privacy), Dance Magazine 77(12):23

2003         “Arte posta a nu,” Gesto (Revista do Centro Coreográfico do Rio) (Brazil), June pp. 24-29

2004        “The First Amendment, Artistic Merit and Nudity in Minnesota: Dance, Criminal Public Indecency and Evidence,” Minnesota Law and Politics Web Magazine www.lawandpolitics.com (click on MN & then web magazine)

               Synopsized: "Artistic Merit in Exotic Dance: A Case Study in Exotic Dancer Jury Trials," Free Speaker, August, pp. 12-14

2004        "Dancing to Celebrate and Help Women," Dancer, December 92, 94  

2005         "Dance Speaks Out on Social Issues," Anthropology News 46(4):11-12          

2005         "'Provocative'" Dancers: Actors with Agency," Anthropology News (Association for Feminist Anthropology) 46(7):47  

2005        “Adult Entertainment Exotic Dance: A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers” (CPL [Council of Planning Librarians] Bibliography 375), Journal of Planning Literature 20(2):116-134

2006       "Strip Club FYI," "Gentlemen's Clubs, Councils & Courtrooms," Adult Entertainment Today 2:2 9

2006        "Body to Body, Dimes to Dollars, Adult Entertainment Today, 3:13

2006       "Music and the Art of Seduction: Conference Report," Dance Research Journal 37(1):157-162

2006        "Marian Chace Foundation Annual Lecture: October 2005. The Power of Dance Discourse:Explanation in Self-Defense," American Journal of Dance Therapy 28(1):3-20 

2007       "Where's the Body: Legislative & Judicial 'Common Sense' & Evidence," WAPA (Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists) Newsletter 30(1):6-7

2008        "Empowerment: The Art of Seduction in American Adult Entertainment Exotic Dance," in Frank Kouwenhoven and James Kippen, eds. Music and the Art of Seduction, forthcoming

----          "'Toxic' Strip Clubs: The Intersection of Religion and Law," under publication review