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McKernan, Michael Edward.

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Persistence and change in gender role-reversal phenomena in American social dancing.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Persistence and change in gender role-reversal phenomena in American social dancing./
Author:	McKernan, Michael Edward.
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Major Professor: Anthony G. Barrand.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3037377
ISBN:	0493503854

Persistence and change in gender role-reversal phenomena in American social dancing.
McKernan, Michael Edward.

Persistence and change in gender role-reversal phenomena in American social dancing. - 222 p.

Major Professor: Anthony G. Barrand.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2002.

Gender role-reversal phenomena related to social dancing are examined for their persistence and evolution from ca. 1850 to the present. Derived from pre-1600 European roots, these particular inversion rituals are peculiar to the United States of America (and American expatriate groups overseas). Historical data on leap year, Tolo, Sadie Hawkins and TWIRP role-reversal dance events are combined here with recent sociological survey data, as well as newspaper accounts and Internet web-pages, to document changes in these cultural forms over time. These customs were originally observed during leap years, and connected with marriage proposal initiative privileges. Leap year role-reversals transformed from actual (or ludic) marriage proposal rights to reversals of gender-role structures within the courtship and mock-marriage activities of social dancing in nineteenth-century America. Two chapters discuss early European origins of leap year role-reversals, and American social dance structures and event organization at the time when leap year role-reversal dance events appear in the historical record, respectively. Four chapters comprise an ethnography of the different reversal phenomena. The final chapters address calendrical and theoretical matters, situating these phenomena within a body of anthropological, sociological and historical scholarship. Connections with broader social, economic and political developments place these evolving forms in cultural context and examine the ongoing cultural validity and authenticity of role-reversal phenomena in the U.S.A., where several forms of these rituals persist, notably as high school Sadie Hawkins dances. Beyond the actual reversal events, the term “Sadie Hawkins” has entered American popular culture as jargon for reversals of power relationships in sports, business and politics, indicating a general penetration of popular culture, though on a subliminal or liminal level where much of the awareness “goes without saying.” These reversal phenomena, particularly newspaper comic strip derived Sadie Hawkins Day (from Al Capp's <italic>Li'l Abner</italic>) and TWIRP (from <italic>Freckles and His Friends</italic>) make explicit some of the unspoken assumptions concerning gender roles which have hidden in plain sight in America up to the present time.

ISBN: 0493503854Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Persistence and change in gender role-reversal phenomena in American social dancing.
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