Jumping Through Hoops Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus Fathers and daughters -- Fiction When Vish Puri

When Vish Puri

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and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity

From Maurice Sendak

Jumping Through Hoops Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus Fathers and daughters -- Fiction When Vish PuriThe fascinating story of how nineteenth century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture. 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 McKoy, the Two Headed Nightingale; and Patty Astley, the mother of the modern circus. These astounding female and gender nonconforming artists wrestled snakes,