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UNINA9910450522303321 |
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Autore |
Tait Peta <1953-, > |
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Circus bodies : cultural identity in aerial performance / / Peta Tait |
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Abingdon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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1-134-33121-5 |
1-280-24469-0 |
9786610244690 |
0-203-39130-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Acrobatics - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-178) and index. |
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Introduction : aerial bodies -- Graceful manliness, unfeminine maidens, and erotic gods -- Unnatural acts, female strongmen -- Cross-dressing and female muscular drag -- Gender competition, camp spectacles, and impossible machismo -- Androgyny to queer violence : Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz -- Ecstasy and visceral flesh in motion. |
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This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial actions, and what cultural identities are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.Adeptly locating aerial performance within the wider cultural history of |
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UNINA9910787951303321 |
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Snodgrass Mary Ellen |
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The Civil War era and Reconstruction : an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history / / Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
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1-317-45790-0 |
1-317-45791-9 |
1-315-70012-3 |
1-78402-821-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (857 p.) |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Encyclopedias |
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First published 2011 by M.E. Sharpe. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals. |
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