街舞圈中，有一群特別的男舞者，他們擅長各種在台灣偏女性意象的風格。妖、騷、婊，是大家最常用來形容他們舞蹈肢體的詞彙。這群Girl’s Style男舞者帶給觀眾對於性別的不安全感，是這份研究的出發點，並且提出兩個研究問題，第一，他們性別越界特質的舞蹈實踐為何，反映了什麼性╱別意涵；第二，他們如何從舞蹈實踐中形塑自我。 為了解舞者的舞蹈實踐，本研究採取了參與觀察與深度訪談兩種資料收集方法，在校內熱舞社與校外街舞教室兩個田野點，集結近六個月的參與觀察筆記、近一年的相處經驗，以及四位受訪者的訪談內容，組成了可供分析的資料。研究者以舞蹈實踐、跨性別與舞蹈取向的自我，作為資料分析的三大概念，讓可見的舞蹈與舞者成為資料分析的對象。並且將舞者的自我等同於舞者的身體，其支持了舞者的吸收與抵抗，是舞者能動的基礎。 研究發現，這群特別的男舞者在街舞圈中，透過服裝、話語、性別腳本等多重文本的實踐，構成Bitch-Style這個新的意義系統，並且在實踐中翻轉了妖、騷、婊等污名話語，亦形塑跨性別的自我。舞者亦會在不同的情境中會自動調校性化的位置，以自我保護、展演符合社會期待的性別角色。未來期望更舞蹈與性/別的相關研究，能和本文的婊子們彼此激盪、對話。 / There’s a group of male street dancers call themselves “bitches”. Started with the uncertain feeling toward their sex/gender dancing image, the study tried to figure out what are their transgender dance practices, what kinds of meaning it contains with sex/gender, and how they fashion themselves by dancing. To understand their dance practices, the researcher took " Participant Observation" and "In-Depth Interview" as the two ways of data-collecting. After gathering with them for one year, I take dance practice, transgender performances and dance orientation of self as three approaches to analyze data. Self in this study is treated as dancers’ dancing body. In conclusion, the researcher argue that Girl’s Style male street dancers should be named as Bitch-Style male dancers. They form themselves by multi-textual practices such as discourses, dressing and gender script. Those insulting phrases like 妖、騷、婊 are transformed into positive words to them by dance practicing. Also, researcher found that they change sexed position quickly and well whenever they change scenarios. In the future,I hope there could be more researches about dance and sexuality which can support and dialogize with Bitches in my study.

Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604) was a cultured courtesan who lived in the famous pleasure quarter along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, the southern capital of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). She was talented in dance and music, painting and poetry, and surprisingly for her time, she was also a playwright. Although she was a celebrity of the prolific Nanjing cultural milieu and there is a good corpus of extant material by and about her, the particular contribution of Ma Shouzhen - her character and her work - have been marginalised, or even neglected, by the previous scholarship. This thesis is a cross-disciplinary study of Ma Shouzhen and is the first in-depth scholarly investigation into the entirety of her activities. It employs material and methods traditionally pertaining to the disciplines of sinology, history, art history, literary and drama studies. The thesis has a dual aim: first, to provide a nuanced understanding of the courtesan, her cultural production and social practice; second, to reclaim the agency and legacy of her character within the cultural milieu of late Ming Nanjing and beyond. These aims will be achieved through two main research objectives: (1) recovering and re-evaluating visual and written sources by and about the courtesan; (2) investigating those sources in order to comprehend her modes of self-representation and strategies of self-fashioning, analysed especially through the lens of gender. The main body of the thesis is composed of an introduction, five core chapters, and an epilogue; the chapters are structured so as to provide as complete a picture of Ma Shouzhen as possible. Chapter Two explores the space of the pleasure quarter, Ma’s biography and its entwinement within the complexities of the historical moment. Chapter Three focuses on her painting, Chapter Four considers her poetry, and Chapter Five explores her theatre practice; Chapter Six extends the investigation to focus on the construction of Ma’s historical character in later decades. In its content and aims, this thesis contributes to women’s and gender history, as well as to studies in visual culture and literature.

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