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ERIC Number: EJ1381335
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1464-7893
EISSN: EISSN-1470-1111
Surfing the Raging Sea: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Dance during a Pandemic
Duffy, Ali
Research in Dance Education, v24 n1 p51-71 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant people and mothers in the United States have faced untenable conditions as they grapple with simultaneous professional and personal demands without access to adequate financial, career, or caregiving support. These simultaneous demands are not new to women, but the pandemic set inequities between working mothers and childfree workers and between women and men in even starker contrast. This article explores responses from 110 (self-identified) women participants about how their role of mother has changed, how their professional and personal lives have changed, how they have adapted to the pandemic era, and what kinds of support have or would have been helpful during this time. The participants' words point to areas of positive benefit and areas of needed growth and change in dance industries and workplaces and reframe the ways we construct our ideas of motherhood and expectations of mothers. I centralize their experiences for the benefit of everyone working in dance so that we may support each other in a revolution of dance as an inclusive, accessible, diverse field of equity and opportunity.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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