Surfing the raging sea: pregnancy and motherhood in dance during a pandemic

IF 0.8 3区艺术学 0 DANCE

Research in Dance Education Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14647893.2023.2172560

A. Duffy

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Abstract

ABSTRACT 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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在汹涌的大海中冲浪：疫情期间舞蹈中的怀孕和母性

摘要在新冠肺炎大流行期间，美国的孕妇和母亲在无法获得足够的经济、职业或护理支持的情况下，同时面临着职业和个人需求，面临着无法维持的状况。这些同时出现的需求对女性来说并不新鲜，但疫情使职业母亲和无子女工人之间以及女性和男性之间的不平等形成了更鲜明的对比。这篇文章探讨了110名（自我认同的）女性参与者对她们的母亲角色如何变化、职业和个人生活如何变化、如何适应疫情时代以及在这段时间里什么样的支持有帮助或会有帮助的反应。参与者的话指出了舞蹈行业和工作场所的积极利益领域以及需要增长和变革的领域，并重新定义了我们构建母亲观念和对母亲期望的方式。我将他们的经验集中起来，造福于每一位从事舞蹈工作的人，这样我们就可以在舞蹈革命中相互支持，将其作为一个包容、可访问、多样化的公平和机会领域。

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期刊介绍： Research in Dance Education aims to inform, stimulate lively and critical debate and promote the development of high quality research and practice in dance education. The journal is relevant to dance academics, teachers and learners. The journal includes contributors from a wide and diverse, international community of researchers. This extends to all aspects of dance in education, providing opportunities for both experienced and less experienced researchers. The journal encourages a wide range of research approaches and methods, in a forum for debate. Issues related to pedagogy, philosophy, sociology and methodology in relation to creating, performing and viewing dance in various contexts are welcome. The role and value of dance as part of arts education and the connections with other arts practitioners is also supported. The research field of Research in Dance Education includes for example: all phases of education, pre-school to higher education and beyond; teaching and learning in dance, theory and practice; embodiment; new technologies; systematic reviews of literature; professional dance artists in education; learning in and through dance; aesthetic and artistic education; dance and the arts; dance and physical education; training dance teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development, dance degrees, and professional dance training; examination dance; dance therapy; special educational needs; community dance and youth dance; dance in society: gender, ethnicity, class, religion, economics; psychological issues: self esteem, motivation, body image; creativity; philosophy and the arts; research methods and methodologies.