@inbook{1308d6a0fd2d470e9ec722731ac3416a,
title = "Women Span Personal to Political in an Israeli Belly Dance Setting",
abstract = "The World Dance Heritage Research Center calls belly dance a global phenomenon. This study highlights meanings of belly dancing in a multi-generational, inter-cultural group of women citizens of the state of Israel. Twenty-two women, ages 25–60, participated in a 6-week series of once-weekly, 90 min belly dancing sessions run by the Women{\textquoteright}s Forum at Ben Gurion University (BGU). This chapter revisits original qualitative data to advance a “site specific” personal-to-political analysis in dialogue with the growing body of literature on belly dance{\textquoteright}s global status as a mode of “empowerment” across genders. Aligning with historical and contemporary literature on the functions and effects of belly dance for women, participants in the study describe experiences that move beyond belly dance{\textquoteright}s recreational and commercial value, touching on areas of subjective knowing (bodily-affective experiences, memories of childhood), intersubjective and intercultural meanings, and political agency.",
keywords = "Belly dance, Empowerment of women, Inter-generational dance, Israel, Phenomenological analysis",
author = "Ephrat Huss and Karen Bond",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-95699-2_24",
language = "American English",
series = "Social Indicators Research Series",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "425--439",
booktitle = "Social Indicators Research Series",
address = "United States",
}
