Pandemic Motherhood (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the COVID-19 Pandemic through Engaged and Applied Arts
Redaktion: Duffy, Ali; Neumann, Tamar; Johnson, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pandemic Motherhood explores how various artistic practices and processes have been instrumental in processing, sharing, and learning about the intersectional epidemics unique to mothers living in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

Exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic and childcare converge to create challenging circumstances for women and mothers, the book interrogates ways in which individuals navigated these challenges through dance, performing arts, and theatre. Central to this topic is a growing body of literature about how applied performance affects change, activates transformation and healing, and engages communities in shared lived experience. The collection highlights artistic processes and experiences of developing, creating, devising, or contributing to artwork that centralizes topics of social inequity with pregnancy, motherhood, and womanhood. Pandemic Motherhood also features innovative artistic practices from contributing authors that illustrate complex, diverse experiences of contemporary and coexisting states of art making and mothering.

This edited collection is ideal for students, scholars, and researchers of applied and socially engaged arts, as well as students of sociology and gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040631041
• Artikelnr.: 76008390

Autorenporträt

Ali Duffy, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Director of Dance at Texas Tech University (USA), Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre, and co-founder of the International Parenting and Dance Network. She is mama to sweet Noah. Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the MFA Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Tamar Neumann is Instructor in English at Tarrant County College, USA. Her research focuses on the performances of open adoption, and how those performances highlight the social construction of families. Her creative work highlights the stories of those who live in open adoptions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section 1
Pandemic Matrescence: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Birth, and
Postpartum Experiences
Chapter 1. Performance + pedagogy + pregnancy: a COVID-19 pandemic
experience
Chapter 2. Representations of science related to reproduction on stage
Chapter 3. dear emi
Chapter 4. Storytelling, community, and the postpartum experience during
COVID-19: affirming the humanity of mothers through trauma-informed
facilitation
Chapter 5. My blessingway Project: a story of birthing a mother and (her
child) hope
Chapter 6. Breastfeeding stories
Chapter 7. A choreographic motherhood: the (re)birth of self in creative
process and practice
Section 2
In the Weeds: A Mother's Work is Never Done. Mothering Children, Teenagers,
and Adults through a Pandemic and Beyond
Chapter 8. My mom worked during the entire pandemic and all I got was this
stupid quarantine
Chapter 9. Space for our children
Chapter 10. Artistry and authority
Chapter 11. Dance as legacy: passing on an artistic practice to my
daughters
Chapter 12. Pregnancy and motherhood in dance: a UK and USA comparison
Chapter 13. Digital media's bearing on maternal well-being: an ethnographic
case study
Chapter 14. Intimacy direction and mothers: Is the light at the end of the
tunnel still there?
Section 3
Performances of motherhood: art making, ideation, processes, outcomes, and
participation through the lens of mothering during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 15. Pandemic Mama: devised performance for community impact
Chapter 16. Pivots and pianos: choreographing through the COVID-19 pandemic
with a 5th grader
Chapter 17. Performing a "real" family: finalizing an adoption amid a
pandemic
Chapter 18. Venus in quarantine
Chapter 19. BIRTH!: a dance documentary exploring autonomy, trauma, and
triumph
Chapter 20. Famalao'an/Babae: socially engaged art, feminist pedagogy, and
shifting women's storytelling with CHamoru and Filipino students through
zine-making in Guåhan
Chapter 21. "Our children": Sarah Sudhoff's multidisciplinary artivism in
motherhood
Chapter 22. Mama's move: embodied storytelling
Chapter 23. Life as a mother artist: loving and grieving through dance
Conclusion