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Talking Women: Dance Herstories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2017
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1. Petersen, Karen and Wilson, J.J., Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (New York: New York University Press, 1976).Google Scholar
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6. Daly, “Isadora Duncan and the Male Gaze,” 243.
7. Mulvey, Laura, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16/3 (Autumn 1975): 6–18CrossRefGoogle Scholar, reprinted in Mulvey, Laura, Visual and Other Pleasures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 14–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Further citations to this essay will refer to the pagination in Visual and Other Pleasures.
8. Mulvey, 21.
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