Sexuality, Gender and Identity

Doug Risner is Professor of Dance at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA and is the author of Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance (2009) and Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts (2014) with Mary Anderson. He is associate editor of Research in Dance Education.Julie A. Kerr-Berry is Professor and Director of Dance at Minnesota State University-Mankato, USA. She is a Fulbright Scholar (Indonesia), the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award from the National Dance Education Organization, and editor in chief emeritus of the Journal of Dance Education.

• 1. Introduction 2. Considering the Issue of Sexploitation of Young Women in Dance: K-12 Perspectives in Dance Education 3. The Impact of Sexuality in Contemporary Culture: An Interpretive Study of Perceptions and Choices in Private Sector Dance Education 4. Sexuality and Sexual Identity: Critical Possibilities for Teaching Dance Appreciation and Dance History 5. Perspectives: Sexuality and Dance in Higher Education 6. Examining Sexual Exploitation in Secondary Schools: Correlating Student Choreography and Teacher Efforts 7. The Hidden Curriculum of Gender in Dance Education 8. Lesbian Lacunae: Invisible Spaces in Dance Education 9. Sexual Orientation and Male Participation in Dance Education: Revisiting the Open Secret 10. Movement for Men: A Course Challenging the Notion that Male Students Don't Dance 11. Policing Masculinity and Dance Reality Television: What Gender Nonconformity Can Teach Us in the Classroom 12. HIV/AIDS in Dance Education: A Pilot Study in Higher Education 13. Black Bodies in Dance Education: Charting a New Pedagogical Paradigm to Eliminate Gendered and Hypersexualized Assumptions 14. The Politics of Personal Pedagogy: Examining Teacher Identities 15. Embodied Subjectivities: Nine Young Women Talking Dance