Sisters of SalomeThe 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. |
Contents
Colettes Breast | 1 |
Salome The Daughter of Iniquity | 17 |
The Wilde Story | 19 |
The Dance of the Seven Veils | 27 |
The Salome Craze | 33 |
Maud Allan The Cult of the Clitoris | 47 |
The Crime | 49 |
The Vision | 57 |
The Queen of the Nile | 131 |
The Russian Salome | 135 |
Diaghilevs Dilettante | 140 |
The Male Martyr | 145 |
La Folie dIda | 154 |
Salvation | 161 |
Colette The Mental Hermaphrodite | 167 |
The Kiss | 169 |
The Trial | 72 |
Mata Hari The Horizontal Agent | 85 |
Intoxication | 87 |
The Little Dutch Girl | 90 |
The Hindu Hoax | 95 |
The Scapegoat | 109 |
The Legendary Backlash | 124 |
Ida Rubinstein The Phallic Female | 129 |
Sidos Masterpiece | 172 |
Willys Ghost | 175 |
The Barrier of Light | 182 |
The Mature Seductress | 191 |
Notes | 197 |
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