South Riding (BBC)

[David51]

Did anyone see this, and notice the sexualised dancing of the girls in the school end of term show?

Apparently this is faithful to the original book, written in the 1930s. So this kind of thing is not just a 21st century phenomenon, as might have been thought.

I wondered about that too! Come to think of it, Shirley Temple is probably a classic example - I'm not sure exactly how she danced but she was definitely presented as innocently flirtatious.
did people worry about it in the same way that we do? was this something the feminists of the time picked up on, I wonder?

Sarah was meant to be feminist, but she seemed to be smiling indulgently, rather staring open-mouthed in horror.