Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925

Women Circus Performers

LCSH URI: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009049

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