When men dance: the issue of masculinities in studies about dance, gender and sexuality

Abstract

Studies about constructions of masculinities have become increasingly prominent among the gender
studies, over the past decades. If feminist theories launched questions about the cultural
constructions of gender in sexed bodies, about the historicity of sex, and on the instability and the
eternal repetition and reiteration involved in the learning of gender, studies on masculinities came
launch issues on the diversity of voices, experiences, corporealities and male performances of
gender, pointing to the multiplicity of masculinities. This work aims to revisit and discuss productions
about the male dancer, whose discussion turns to the relationship between gender, sexuality and
masculinities.