Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925 Main Menu Introduction Introduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content. The American Experiment: Circus in Context Circus performers and American history timeline Routing the Circus: The Things They Carried Circus Routes Map, 1875-1925 Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle by Rebecca Fitzsimmons Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performers by Angela Yon and Mariah Wahl Shattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circus by Elizabeth Harman Side Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to Exoticism Annexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. Hartman Native Performance and Identity in The Wild West Show by Mariah Wahl Showmen's Rests: The Final Curtain Circus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. Hartman List of Performers Performers covered in this exhibit Bibliography & Further Readings Bibliography and readings for each chapter Acknowledgements Creative Commons License

Women Circus Performers

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Afong Moy: The Museum and Commercialization of Chinese Bodies
  2. Interracial Encounters: Unexpected Circus Connections
  3. Social Constructions
  4. Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle
  5. Shattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circus
  6. Policy, Immigration, and the Labor of Japanese and Chinese Performers
  7. Big Women
  8. Big Cat Trainers/ Tamers
  9. Marie (Riche) Lille
  10. Mabel Stark
  11. Daring Women
  12. Ida Williams
  13. Ella Ewing
  14. Bearded Women
  15. Zitella Jane (Green) Flynn
  16. Strong Women
  17. Tetu Robinson
  18. Annie Jones
  19. Elvira Sansoni
  20. Dolores Vallecita
  21. Grace Gilbert
  22. Nellie Coupe
  23. Irene and Rose Maretta
  24. Zazel
  25. Aimee Blondell