Research by Virginia Keft-Kennedy, Ph.D
Publications
Conference Papers Presented
- "1970s Belly Dance and the "How-To" Phenomenon: Feminism, Fitness and Orientalism" in Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity.
Edited by Caitlin E. McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young, McFarland 2013: pg68 - "Representing the Belly Dancing Body: Feminism, Orientalism and the Grotesque" PhD thesis, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages: University of Wollongong, Australia (2005)
- "'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.
- "Belly Dance through Pregnancy: An Ancient Dance for a Modern Mama!" Early Years Magazine, Issue 3 (2010)
- "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).
