Jumping Through Hoops Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus Fathers and daughters -- Fiction allowing for a smooth and

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Jumping Through Hoops Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus Fathers and daughters -- Fiction allowing for a smooth andThe 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,