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performing gender in the nineteenth-century circus
1 online resource () : illustrations (some color).
Introduction. Step right up! -- Media and sources in an era of connection -- Building the nineteenth-century big top -- Womanhood, real and true -- The queen of beauty and the armless wonder -- Women take flight -- Invisible girls and electric women -- Circassian beauties in the American sideshow -- The remarkable life of Millie-Christine Mckoy, the two-headed nightingale -- The splendor and terror of bearded ladies -- Ella Zoyara,"the Boy-Girl" -- New women join the circus -- Conclusion. Taming savage beasts.
New York City, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2025