Juliet McMains

Juliet E. McMains is the United States dance scholar and instructor,^[1] the author of the Glamour Addiction, the first comprehensive study of the United States DanceSport.^[2][3]

Juliet McMains started doing ballroom dancing as a teenager. Eventually she became professional ballroom dancer until she stopped competing in 2003.^[1] Her Senior thesis in the college was Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing. She earned B.A. in Women's Studies from Harvard University and PhD in dance history and theory (2003) at the University of California, Riverside. ^[4]

As of 2006^[update], she is a teacher of World Dance History and Beginning Salsa at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her academic specializations include dance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory.^{[1] [4]}

Scholar works

• 2006: Juliet E. McMains, "Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry" Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 0819567744
• 2002: Juliet McMains and Danielle Robinson. "Swinging Out: Southern California's Lindy Revival." in: I See America Dancing: Selected Readings, 1685-2000, Ed. Maureen Needham. University of Illinois Press

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