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The Radio City Rockettes and the Making of a Sisterhood

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  3. Breckinridge, Sophonisba P.. ( 1933), Women in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Their Political, Social and Economic Activities, New York:: McGraw-Hill;.
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  4. Burt, Ramsay. ( 1998), Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, ‘Race’ and Nation in Early Modern Dance, London:: Routledge;.
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  5. Donald, James. ( 2007;), ‘ Kracauer and the dancing girls. ’, New Formations, 61, pp. 49–63.14
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  6. Dudden, Faye E.. ( 1994), Women in the American Theatre, Actresses, Audiences 1790-1870, New Haven:: Yale University Press;.
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  7. Erdman, Andrew L.. ( 2004), Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895–1991, Jefferson:: McFarland & Company, Inc;.
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  8. Francisco, Charles. ( 1979), The Radio City Music Hall: An Affectionate History of the World's Greatest Theater, New York:: EP Dutton;.
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  9. Hanna, Judith Lynne. ( 1998), Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire, Chicago:: University of Chicago Press;.
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  19. Love, Judith Anne. ( 1980), Thirty Thousand Kicks: What's It Like to Be a Rockette?, Hicksville:: Exposition Press;.
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  24. Porto, James. ( 2006), The Radio City Rockettes: A Dance through Time, New York:: HarperCollins;.15
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