Spiritual Herstories: Call of the Soul in Dance Research

This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research into spirituality, dance, gender, religion, and somatics. Written by women dance scholars in higher education, this evocative and illuminating work highlights a growing discourse on gendered leadership in dance research. provides new pathways and innovative research methods that respond to the educational needs of women emerging in male-centric socio-historic research traditions.