This book explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact mothers working in it.
Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact mothers working in it.
Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and trends leading to the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This study then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance choreography, dance education, writing, and advocacy though survey and interview data. Based on participant responses, recommendations for changes in policy, hiring, evaluation, and other work practices to better support working mothers in dance are outlined and discussed. Finally, essays from five working mothers in dance offers more intimate, personal stories and guidance geared to mothers, future mothers, and colleagues and supervisors of mothers in the dance field.
By describing lived experiences and offering suggestions for improved working conditions and self-advocacy, this book initiates expanded discussion about women in dance and promotes change to positively impact dancing mothers, their employers, and the dance field.
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''Ali Duffys book, Dancing Motherhood, is an invaluable resource for expecting dance mothers and dance fathers interested in gaining better understanding of the challenges and joys of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood. Few volumes, if any, successfully address living lives in dance while pregnant and their attendant responsibilities with such currency and rigorous research-based findings. A work of high quality, integrity, and exceptional inquiry, Duffys book is exceptionally thorough in its conception and composition, impeccable in its research design, and far reaching in its holistic and humanizing approach. This reviewers only regret is that Duffys outstanding book was not available when I was an expecting father 40 years ago when I would soon be a dancing father. With the season of national book award nominations for dance education coming soon, I cant imagine that Dancing Motherhood would not be at the top of nomination lists.''
Doug Risner, PhD., MFA | Wayne State University
Contributors
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Research Design, Methodologies, and Processes
2 Theoretical Frameworks and Dominant Narratives of Women at Work and Women
in Dance
3 Bodies
4 Identities, Values, and Relationships
5 Unmet Needs, Conflicts, and Challenges
6 For the Tribe: Essays to Mothers, Future Mothers, and Non-Mothers
7 Organizational and Cultural Transformations to Benefit Pregnant People and
Mothers in Dance
Epilogue: In Closing: A Dancing Letter to My Child Index
Ali Duffy (PhD, MFA) is a Professor, Graduate Director, and Associate Head of Dance in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, USA. She is also the Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre and a co-founder of the International Parenting and Dance Network.
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