Moving Lessons: Margaret H'Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education

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Moving Lessons: Margaret H'Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education

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Moving Lessons is an insightful and sophisticated look at the origins and influence of dance in American universities, focusing on Margaret H'Doubler (1889–1982), who established the first university courses and the first degree program in dance. Janice Ross shows how H'Doubler changed the way Americans thought, not just about female physicality but also about higher education for women. In this second edition, Ross adds new details on H'Doubler's radical pedagogy—including her use of a skeleton as a teaching tool in the classroom—and reflections on recent developments in dance studies and education.

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Dance Research Journal

Mak[es] the case that H'Doubler's life work led to an educational environment where empowerment of body, creative vision, and their synthesis through movement became a real option for American students. . . . A provocative and thoroughly engaging book

Ross sketches the end of the constraints of the Victorian age and the feminist liberation through changes in fashion, health practices and physical education for women

This detailed portrait of a singular woman will be of interest to dance, education, and women's studies collections

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