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Jumping Through Hoops
- Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus
Engelsk
Bogcover for Jumping Through Hoops af Betsy Golden Kellem, 9781558613447
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781558613447
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1558613447
Udg. Dato:
24 jul 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,1 x 22,9 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
24 jul 2025
Forfatter(e):

Jumping Through Hoops

- Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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The fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.

Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking women like Lavinia Warren, known as The Queen of Beauty; Millie-Christine McKoy, the Two-Headed Nightingale; and Patty Astley, the mother of the modern circus. These astounding female and gender-nonconforming artists wrestled snakes, performed magic tricks with electricity, and walked across waterfalls on tightropes, shattering taboos by performing in public at a time when “respectable” women were mostly confined to their homes.

Betsy Golden Kellem deftly explores how major forces in the long nineteenth century combined to create the uniquely American spectacle of the traveling circus. During the transformation of the circus from scrappy “mud shows” to a major international business, these extraordinary circus women challenged contemporary ideas of femininity, creating new possibilities for women far beyond the big top.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781558613447
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1558613447
Udg. Dato:
24 jul 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,1 x 22,9 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
24 jul 2025
Forfatter(e):
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