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Hidden in Plain Sight: Women Choreographers of 1940s American Modern Dance

Description:

This dissertation examines how racially, ethnically, and sexually minoritized women embodied and contested competing images of national identity between World War II and the Cold War. I challenge dominant narratives of modern dance, which overlook gender politics as women left the art form and white men gained prominence in it...

Keyword:

Janet Collins, Abstraction, Theatricalism, Pearl Primus, Women choreographers, and Modern dance

Subject:

Women's studies, Dance, and American studies

Creator:

Friedman, Jessica

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_960177 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16400