Notes on the Contributors - List of Plates - Preface - PART 1: CULTURAL STUDIES - Dance, Gender and Culture; T.Polhemus - Dancing in the Dark: Rationalism and the Neglect of Social Dance; A.Ward - Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power; C.J.Novack - \'I seem to find the happiness I seek\': Heterosexuality and Dance in the Musical; R.Dyer - PART 2: ETHNOGRAPHY - An-other Voice: Young Women dancing and talking; H.Thomas - Gender interchangeability among the Tiwi; A.Grau - Saturday Night Fever: an Ethnography of Disco Dancing; D.Walsh - Classical Indian Dance and Women\'s Status; J.L.Hanna - PART 3: THEORY/CRITICISM - \'You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about...\': Excursions and Incursions into Feminism and Bausch\'s Tanztheater; A.Sanchez-Colberg - \'She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend\': Images of Femininity and Dance Appreciation; L-A.Sayers - Still dancing downwards and talking back; Z.Oyortey - The Anxiety of Dance Performance; V.Rimmer - Index