Review: Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890. Vol. I: 1840-1849, by Kenneth L. Holmes

The Interracial Theatre of 'Strip Tents' in Travelling Shows: Spaces of Sexual Desire in Southeastern Australia, 1930s-1950s

“…58 It was not until the 1920s that strip tease became the mainstay of burlesque shows and it was also during this decade that "strip tease was relegated to male-only audiences". 59 Andrea Friedman argues that by the 1930s in New York City, "legitimate theater drew a middle-class and mixed gender (therefore respectable) audience … Burlesque, in contrast, catered predominantly to working-class men." 60 There is no indication that leg shows as part of sideshows in Australia were a front for prostitution.…”