Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction

Abstract

We are coming to believe that we are now living through a moment of quite radical sexual-political change. Traditional values, beliefs and expectations are shifting. What it means to do masculinity and femininity has altered. We have entered the era of so-called ‘post-feminism’.

We are in the middle of an intrinsic change in the relations between men and women: a shift in power and values that is unravelling many of the assumptions not only of 200 years of industrial society, but also of millennia of traditions and beliefs. (Wilkinson, 1994, p. 1)

And so we reach the dance floor, since it is within the dance culture of clubs and raves that the new practices of the postfeminist and now post-AIDS generation are being publicly worked out. (Bradby, 1993, p. 165)