| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Acrobatics -- Social aspects.
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Acrobatics. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tait, Peta, 1953- Circus bodies. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2005 (DLC) 2004027371 |
| ISBN |
0203391306 (electronic book) |
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9780203391303 (electronic book) |
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041532937X (Cloth) |
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9780415329378 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415329388 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780415329385 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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