Sisters of Salome

ISBN-13: 9780803262416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 226 str.

Toni Bentley

Opis

The origins of the art of exotic dancing lie in English drama and Viennese opera: Oscar Wilde s 1893 play Salome, and Richard Strauss s 1905 opera based on it, brought onto the stage a female character who captured and dominated the audience with the raw power of her naked body. Her Dance of the Seven Veils shocked and fascinated, and Salome became a pop icon on both sides of the Atlantic. Toni Bentley explores how four influential women embraced the persona of the femme fatale and transformed the misogynist image of a dangerously sexual woman into a form of personal liberation."