Summary
Whether through dance, music, acting, or a combination of the above, women have long populated the realm of performance art, albeit often not without obstacles; many of these performers challenged preconceptions and even changed history through their work. Women Performers presents lively, engrossing biographies of some of these notable women, including Aretha Franklin, Okuni, Josephine Baker, and Sarah Bernhardt. Each entry focuses readers' attention on the women themselves and their accomplishments, linking their formative experiences with their later achievements.
About the Author(s)
Erika Kuhlman, Ph.D., is director of the Women's Studies Program at Idaho State University. She is the author of several books, including Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War; Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, and the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895–1919; and Reconstructing Patriarchy After the Great War: Women, Gender, and Postwar Reconciliation between Nations as well as numerous scholarly articles.