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Macho Dancing, the Feminization of Labor, and Neoliberalism in the Philippines
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 53, Number 2, Summer 2009 (T 202)
- pp. 77-89
- Article
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Macho dancing in the gay bars of the Philippines is performed by male heterosexual dancers and is a symptom of the discursive cultural politics of the Philippines in transition from the Marcos dictatorship to today's multinational capitalism. The macho dancer's body can also be read as representing actual shifts in the cultural politics of the Filipino nation-state.