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Interview no. | G-0184 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.2.3. Southern Women: Special Focus: Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism |
Project description | Interviews, 1993-1998, concentrating on the experiences of women leaders and attempting to redefine leadership to encompass women's efforts in grassroots movements, especially in environmental movements, community development, and self-help organizations. Many interviews were done by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students; five were conducted by Holloway Sparks with three North Carolina lesbian activists for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dissertation on the role of political courage in enabling activism and dissent; and there is also one interview by Pam Grundy with North Carolina State University women's basketball coach Kay Yow. |
Date | 10 November 1994 |
Interviewee | Dorrance, M'Liss G. |
Interviewee occupation |
Business owners Dancers Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1951 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Crow, Dawn M. |
Abstract | Mrs. Dorrance is a professor of Dance at Duke University who also owns her own dance and ballet studio in Durham. She was born in Lisbon, Portugal and spent parts of her childhood in Ethiopia. This experience was very formative in her understanding of male/female relations. Dorrance has always been interested in dance and wanted to be a dancer, and has experience with the National Ballet in Washing, D.C., and the American Ballet in New York City. However, she realized that her true passion rested with teaching and she began teaching at Duke in 1975. Discussed are some of the roadblocks she faced setting up her business as a woman, including have to have her husband sign for loans. Much of the interview is spent talking about her religious upbringing and the differences between how males/females were expected to behave and what she expects the modern woman to be like. While she says that women certainly do not have to be domestic, once children become involved the woman and her partner should have a serious discussion about the raising of children because one parents needs to be at home. |
Citation | Interview with M'Liss G. Dorrance by Dawn M. Crow, 10 November 1994 G-0184, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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