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Jumping Through Hoops

By Kellem, Betsy Golden

Jumping Through Hoops

By Kellem, Betsy Golden

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"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 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 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 circus women challenged contemporary ideas of femininity, creating new possibilities for women far beyond the big top"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2025-06-10
Publication Date:
2025-06-10
Publisher:
Feminist Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1558613447
ISBN13:
9781558613447
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
428 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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