Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture by Alan Trachtenberg, Robert C. Allen

Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture

Alan Trachtenberg, Robert C. Allen

370 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, bu...

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