Abstract:The lively gesture; antiquity has permitted it.
—Aby Warburg
On 15 March 1914, the Washington Post printed an article by an American academic, Professor David Edgar Rice of Columbia University, who was anxious to alert readers to an alarming rise in cases of adultery and divorce involving dancers: women whose profession seemed to signal their moral disrepute....
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