Author: Kathy PeissPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439905533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.
Cheap Amusements
Author: Kathy PeissPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439905533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.
The Ladies Amusement
Author: Amusement for the Ladies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canons, fugues, etc. (Vocal)
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Amusement for the Ladies, Being a Selection of Favorite Catches, Glees and Madrigals; Several of which Have Gained the Prize Medals
Author: Thomas Augustine ArnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glees, catches, rounds, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Lady's Monthly Museum, Or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction
Author: Evening Amusements, for the Ladies; Or, Original Anecdotes, Intended to Promote a Love of Virtue in Young Minds. A Series of Letters
Author: The Ladies Amusement Facsim. Ed
Author: New And Elegant Amusements For The Ladies Of Great Britain
Author: S. HarringtonFreak Show
Author: Robert BogdanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622743X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Author: Lady