Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus

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Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking women like Lavinia Warren, known as the Queen of Beauty; Millie-Christine McKo y, the Two-Headed Nightingale; and Patty Astley, the mother of the modern circus. Betsy Golden Kellem deftly explores how major forces in the long nineteenth century combined to create the uniquely American spectacle of the traveling circus. Show more