At the circus backstage: Women, domesticity, and motherhood, 1975–2003
Abstract
The transformations that took place during the last thirty years in the social position and performance of the circus in Britain are observed through their backstage manifestations, with a particular attention to the position and roles of the circus women.
The “traditional circus” that originated in the crisis of modernity was characterized by the performance of the traveler, its family-based organization, and the particular position of the women at the center of the family's daily life and long term working together.
General social and cultural shifts towards consumerism, play, intensified mobility, and individuation, turned the circus performance and traveling irrelevant, and with it also its family basis and the centrality of the women's role.
The “Contemporary Circus” is working in a new cultural environment. Its performance is different. It works a different organization and gender regimes.
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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