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Actresses As Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Gender and Performance Series)
Actresses As Working Women Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture - Gender and Performance Series
Author: Tracy C. Davis
In Victorian society performers were drawn from varying class backgrounds and enjoyed a unique degree of social mobility. Nevertheless, the living and working conditions of female performers were very different from that of their male colleagues. Their segregation and concentration in low-status jobs, like dancing, guaranteed economic insecurity...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415063531
ISBN-10: 0415063531
Publication Date: 7/15/1991
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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