Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus

Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century CircusThe 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,