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Title Women's work [electronic resource] : making dance in Europe before 1800 / edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks.

Imprint Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 270 p. : ill.
Series Studies in dance history
Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti -- Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves -- At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye -- The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte -- Francoise Prevost : the unauthorized biography / Regine Astier -- The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Salle? / Sarah McCleave -- In pursuit of the dancer-actress / Moira Goff -- Elisabeth of Spalbeek : dancing the passion / Karen Silen -- Galanterie and gloire : women's will and the eighteenth-century worldview in Les Indes galantes / Joellen A. Meglin.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Women dancers -- Europe -- History.
Dance -- Europe -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Brooks, Lynn Matluck.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0299225305 (cloth : alk. paper)
0299225348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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