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Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Aerial Bodies Discursive Apparatus Chapter one: Graceful Manliness, Unfeminine Maidens and Erotic Gods Muscular Flying Action Dangerous Women A Gothic Science Ambidextrous Sexing Cultural Paradox Chapter two: Unnatural Acts, Female Strongmen Arrogant Amazons? Perfected Womanhood and Iron Jaws Deadly Damsels Balancing Butterflies Triple Somersaults Backwards Enjoying Kinetic Freedom Chapter three: Cross-Dressing and Female Muscular Drag Gender Tricksters Man-Woman and Spaces In Between Open Secrets and Silences Unavoidable Identity Risks Slippery Work and Nationality Slippage Chapter four: Gender Competition, Camp Spectacles and Impossible Machismo Pretty Tough Competition Action Hero Scandals Double Fashions in Triples Catching Pains in Cinema Girls With Muscles of Steel Quadruple Macho Acts Chapter five: Androgyny to Queer Violence: Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz Banned Androgynous Charm Aggro Femmes Chimeric Circus Chapter six: Ecstasy and Visceral Flesh in Motion Delight or Anxiety? Cinema's Aerial Action Catching Body Phenomenologies Pleasurable Flesh, Ecstatic Motion Glossary Aerial Apparatus Movements References Index
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Acrobatics -- Social aspects.