Dainty little fairies
Women, gender and the Savoy Operas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shani D''Cruze, Shani D’cruze (Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Shani D'Cruze |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345-367 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020000200502 |
| OpenAlex | W4256312310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
Since the 1890s, amateur operatic societies have enabled middle-and lower middle-class women to overcome any stigma associated with public stage performance through their constitution as ‘serious’ leisure organisations. Some women have occupied positions of (situated) prestige, though others were confined to supporting roles. Amateur ‘operatics’ have generated a carnival atmosphere around the activity of performance, where boundaries between members' leisure, social and performing identities became permeable and easily crossed. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a staple of the amateur repertoire since their late-Victorian composition, draw on a range of representations of masculinity and femininity that acquired new cultural relevance for the middle classes from the inter-war period. Positive representations of femininity are predominantly youthful. More negative representations of older women have their origins in the grotesque, cross-dressed dame of burlesque. Nevertheless, interview evidence demonstrates that older women in particular, aided by the possibilities of moving between performing and social identities that this leisure activity encourages, have made empowering and selective imaginative appropriations from these gender ideals
Aesthetics · Amateur · Art · Biology · Burlesque · Femininity · Literature · Masculinity · Middle class · Political science · Prestige · Repertoire · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Irish and British Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology · Horticulture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |