Swim pretty : aquatic spectacles and the performance of race, gender, and nature / Jennifer A. Kokai...
Swim pretty : aquatic spectacles and the performance of race, gender, and nature / Jennifer A. Kokai...
Swim pretty : aquatic spectacles and the performance of race, gender, and nature / Jennifer A. Kokai.
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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/3187
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: a drop of water -- The 1939 New York World's Fair: mermaids obscene and glamorous -- Weeki wachee girls and buccaneer boys: the evolution of gender in aquatic spectacles -- Swine dives: the impact of novelty and commerce on aquatic spectacles -- The deaths of mermaids and whales: the e...
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Publisher
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]
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Illinois
Date Published
[2017]
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Swim pretty : aquatic spectacles and the performance of race, gender, and nature / Jennifer A. Kokai.
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Theater in the Americas
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/3187
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74VKVLNJ4Xxb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVLNJ4Xxb
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ISBN
9780809336005 paperback
0809336006 paperback
DDC
797.21
MMS ID
991024110747702626
