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Research by Dr Virginia Keft, (Ph.D, BCA, BA. Hons I).

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Publications
Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. "1970s Belly Dance and the "How-To" Phenomenon: Feminism, Fitness and Orientalism" in Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity. Eds Caitlin E. McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland 2013: 68-92
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Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. "Representing the Belly Dancing Body: Feminism, Orientalism and the Grotesque" PhD thesis, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages: University of Wollongong, Australia (2005) 

Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. "''How Does She Do That?': Belly Dancing and the Horror of a Flexible Woman". Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 34, no. 3-4 (2005): 279-300.
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Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. "Belly Dance through Pregnancy: An Ancient Dance for a Modern Mama!" Early Years Magazine, Issue 3 (2010)
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Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. ""Belly Dance for Kids" Coast Kids Magazine, July (2009).

Conference Papers Presented
  • Good Vibrations: Sex, Race and the Body in 19th Century Constructions of Belly Dance. Nineteenth Century Sex: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference (INCS). University of California, Santa Cruz (March 2003).
  • "Sequins are a Girls Best Friend: Belly Dance and Feminism" Making an Appearance: International Conference on Fashion, Dress and Consumption. University of Brisbane, Australia (July 2003).
  • “‘How does she do that?’: Belly Dancing and the Horror of a Flexible Woman” Body Modification: Changing Bodies, Changing Selves. Macquarie University, Sydney Australia (April 2003).
  • “Stereotype and the Construction of Cultural Difference in Loubna Haikal’s Seducing Mr Maclean” Knowledge and Nation: Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA Congress XXXII) University of Wellington, New Zealand (2003).
  • "Controlling the Unruly (Soft) Body: Belly Dance, the Grotesque, and the Politics of Appearance" Body Modification Conference: Mark II. Macquarie University, Sydney Australia (April 2005).

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