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Author Holmes, Kate

Title Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s Femininity, Celebrity, and Glamour
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (197 p.)
Series Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Producing allure and popularity -- 1. Democratising experience: Diverse transformative performance spaces -- 2. To glamour: A kinaesthetic fantasy of weightlessness -- 3. Skilful vulnerability: Showmanship and the performance of skill and risk -- 4. Performing and negotiating muscular femininity: Aerial celebrity and the modern girl -- 5. Absorbing activity into femininity: Moving bodies, citizenship, and beauty
Conclusion: Updating aerial celebrity and re-evaluating practice -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Women circus performers -- United States -- Biography
Women circus performers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429595608
0429595603