Women's work
Subtitle: making dance in Europe before 1800
By: edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks
Contributors: Brooks, Lynn Matluck
Series: Studies in dance history; Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780299225308; 9780299225346
Subjects: Women dancers -- Europe -- History; Dance -- Europe -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks; title: Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti; title: Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves; title: At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye; title: The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte; title: Françoise Prévost : the unauthorized biography / Régine Astier; title: The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Sallé? / Sarah McCleave; title: In pursuit of the dancer-actress / Moira Goff; title: Elisabeth of Spalbeek : dancing the passion / Karen Silen; title: Galanterie and gloire : women's will and the eighteenth-century worldview in Les Indes galantes / Joellen A. Meglin