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Author Bentley, Toni.

Title Sisters of Salome [electronic resource] / Toni Bentley.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

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Description x, 223 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I. Salome: The Daughter of Iniquity 17 -- Chapter One. The Wilde Story I9 -- Chapter Two. The Dance of the Seven Veils 27 -- Chapter Three. The Salome Craze 33 -- Part II. MaudAllan: The Cultof the Clitoris 47 -- Chapter Four. The Crime 49 -- Chapter Five. The Vibion 57 -- Chapter Six. The Trial 72 -- Part III. Mata Hari: The HorizontalAgent 85 -- Chapter Seven. Intoxication 87 -- Chapter Eight. TheLittleDutch Girl 90 -- Chapter Nine. The Hindu Hoax 95 -- Chapter Ten. The Scapegoat o09 -- Chapter Eleven. The Legendary Backlash 124 -- Part IV. Ia Rublintein: The Phallic Female I29 -- Chapter Twelve. The Queen oftheNile i31 -- Chapter Thirteen. The Russian Salome 135 -- Chapter Fourteen. Diaghilev' Dilettante 140 -- Chapter Fifteen. The Male Martyr 145 -- Chapter Sixteen. La Folie d9'da 154 -- Chapter Seventeen. Salvation 161 -- Part V. Colette: The MentalHermaphrodite 167 -- Chapter Eighteen. TheKiss 169 -- Chapter Nineteen. So d Masterpiece 172 -- Chapter Twenty. Willy's Ghost 175 -- Chapter Twenty-One. TheBarrier ofLight 182 -- Chapter Twenty-Two. The Mature Seductress Ig1 -- Notes 197 -- Bibliography 207 -- Index 217.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Salome (Biblical figure)
Women dancers -- Biography.
Feminism and dance.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0300090390 (alk. paper)

 
    
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