Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s: Femininity, Celebrity, and Glamour

by Kate Holmes

Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of 'the' female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination.

Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367182572
• ISBN13: 9780367182571
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"