Circus bodies
Subtitle: cultural identity in aerial performance
By: Peta Tait.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Acrobatics -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : aerial bodies, discursive apparatus; title: Graceful manliness, unfeminine maidens, and erotic gods; title: Unnatural acts, female strongmen; title: Cross-dressing and female muscular drag; title: Gender competition, camp spectacles, and impossible machismo; title: Androgyny to queer violence : Cirque du soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz; title: Ecstasy and visceral flesh in motion.