Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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Dancers and the Discourses of Sexuality and Sexuality
I feel like for some women it is simply a matter of feeling like their body is their own you know and I joke about it I joke about how my mom would twitch when she would watch me dance but I think about that a lot. The contradictions that you point to the injustice that that underscore those contradictions have been challenging for me to negotiate as a dancer. Despite all the years of training I don't know how to go into public spaces the way I used to knowing what I know so there's that. There are families who believe that they could translate their daughter's ability to look like a dancer whether she's dancing or not in a social space that will make her more desirable and marriage remains
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