ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the state of the field with regard to feminin/masculin and also with regard to the structure of dance as a discipline in which notions of gender, feminine and masculine intervene. A cognitive notion of gender was voiced by Robert Stoller in Sex and Gender: On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity. Gayle Rubin's anthropological work on conceptualizing gender was extremely important to further separating gender from biological constructs and for forwarding the notion of gender as social, established in particular cultures. As framed here, gender is comprised in serial interaction with structures of the social. Limitation of gender theory to formation of the subject is both too limiting and bound to fail in terms of conceptualizing agency. For the concluding passages of the chapter, author wants to return to some very recent re-formulations of gender for the catalyst they might offer to thinking about feminin/masculin.
