"Ballet does need defending because it has a history of hurting women. Not just their famous feet, but their bodies, their self-image, and their position in society."
Page 100 of "Witches: What Women Do Together" by Sam George-Allen
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44162881-witches
"Dance scholar Ann Daly calls it 'one of our culture's most powerful models of patriarchal ceremony' and says it's 'rooted in an ideology which denies women their own agency.' there's certainly no denying that ballet is an art form in the long and storied tradition of the patriarchy and all the gender roles that accompany it: a ballerina is supposed to represent the patriarchal ideal of Woman, beautiful, delicate and passive, lifted and moved around by her male partner, an aesthetic object to be put on display.
Do you think any of this deters, in the slightest, the girls who want to dance?
What I love and fear about ballet is..." (100).
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