Ross, Janice,

Moving lessons : Margaret H'Doubler and the beginning of dance in American education / Margaret H'Doubler and the beginning of dance in American education Janice Ross. - xxii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-259) and index.

Early twentieth-century dance education and the female body -- Nineteenth-century responses to women's health and sexuality: art, fashion, dance -- Women, physical activity, education: a nineteenth-century perspective -- Blanche Trilling: leader and visionary in women's physical education -- Margaret H'Doubler and the liberty of thought -- Margaret H'Doubler and the philosophy of John Dewey -- Structuring experience in the classroom: Margaret H'Doubler brings dance to the University, 1917-1926 -- Margaret H'Doubler's classroom: educational progressivism in theory and action -- Margaret H'Doubler's legacy: dance and the performing body in the American university.

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H'Doubler, Margaret Newell, 1889-


Dance teachers--United States--Biography
Dance--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--United States--20th century.
Feminism and dance--History--United States--20th century.

GV1785.H37 / R68 2000

792.80973