Womenas Work: Making Dance in Europe Before 1800

Book Overview

Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800.
Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299225305
• ISBN13: 9780299225308
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"