The Prettiest Girl on Stage Is a Man

"In this highly readable book, Kathleen Casey makes an important intervention into the study of early-twentieth-century American vaudeville and some of its most infamous stars. She pinpoints the blind spot in current scholarship by demonstrating how race as much as gender charges the meanings in vaudeville performance.” —Linda Mizejewski, author of Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics and Ziegfeld Girl From the 1890s through the 1920s, vaudeville reigned as one of the most popular ent