Beatrice Allegranti

Embodied Performances

Sexuality, Gender, Bodies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-48457-4
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781137484574
• ISBN-10: 1137484578
• Artikelnr.: 42026070

Autorenporträt

BEATRICE ALLEGRANTIis a choreographer (for dance theatre and film), clinical practitioner (in the UK NHS in adult mental health, special needs schools and in private practice) and is a researcher and convener on the Dance Movement Psychotherapy MA at University of Roehampton, UK. A key focus of her work is on embodiment or how we can 'be in' and develop our relationship with our bodies through integrating dance movement, psychosocial and biological processes and understandings of human agency. Visit authors website: www.embodiedpractice.co.uk

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Bodies as Knowledge Embodying Ethics The Autobiographical Body The Relational Body The Political Body Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'Dr Allegranti offers a rare addition to the literature concerning Dance Movement Psychotherapy, in which she deconstructs taken-for-granted ideas surrounding gender and sexuality through the medium of dance performance and film. In so doing she has traversed several media, expertly negotiating and performing her own identities as therapist, choreographer, film maker and writer. The result is a text with accompanying film resources that will challenge a range of practitioners and academics, including social scientists interested in looking afresh at gender and sexuality as performed identities.'  - Bonnie Meekums, Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK