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Popular Culture Review
space had become decidedly feminised because of the majority of performers
working in female choruses, elite female aerialists in flying troupes were
struggling to hold their position and maintain the right to train and execute
difficult tricks against social expectations that these were done by their male
counterparts.
In colloquial speech rather than technical accuracy, Norma Fox in the 1951
Camel advertisement is observed to hang “by the ski