Lacing Skates and Unlacing Corsets: Gender Play and Multiple Femininities in Roller Derby and Neo-Burlesque

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dc.contributor.advisorGilman, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorHelweg-Larsen, Jules
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-01T15:28:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-01T15:28:52Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-01
dc.description.abstractLacing Skates and Unlacing Corsets: Gender Play and Multiple Femininities in Roller Derby and Neo-Burlesque. Contemporary roller derby and neo-burlesque, as an athletic sport and a framed staged performance respectively, each provide a space that encourages gender play through interactions between participants and audience and the role of physical body. In this thesis, I discuss how each activity allows for a multiplicity of feminine identities and commentary by performers on the social and cultural expectations of women. Drawing on performance theory, ritual theory, and gender studies, along with fieldwork, I explore how this commentary comes from participants simultaneously critiquing and embracing those expectations in their performances through costuming, use of the body, and the presence of an audience who interpret the events.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/22302
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectMultiple femininitiesen_US
dc.subjectNeo-Burlesqueen_US
dc.subjectPerformanceen_US
dc.subjectRoller derbyen_US
dc.titleLacing Skates and Unlacing Corsets: Gender Play and Multiple Femininities in Roller Derby and Neo-Burlesque
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineFolklore Program
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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