Introduction

1. The Bernhardt Effect: Self-Advertising and the Age of Spectacle

2. Mirth and Girth: The Politics of Comedy

3. The Strong Personality: Female Mimics and the Play of the Self

4. The Americanization of Salome: Sexuality, Race, and the Careers of the Vulgar Princess

5."The Eyes of the Enemy": Female Activism and the Paradox of Theater

6."Nationally Advertised Legs": How Broadway Invented "The Girls"

7."Like All the Rest of Womankind Only More So": The Chorus Girl Problem and American Culture

Conclusion: The Legacy of Female Spectacle

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Acknowledgments

Index

Susan A. Glenn is Professor of History at the University of Washington, and author of Daughters of the Shtetl, which won the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Prize.