Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Colette�s Breast -- Part I. Salome: The Daughter of Iniquity -- Chapter One. The Wilde Story -- Chapter Two. The Dance of the Seven Veils -- Chapter Three. The Salome Craze -- Part II. Maud Allan: The Cult of the Clitoris -- Chapter Four. The Crime -- Chapter Five. The Vision -- Chapter Six. The Trial -- Part III. Mata Hari: The Horizontal Agent -- Chapter Seven. Intoxication -- Chapter Eight. The Little Dutch Girl -- Chapter Nine. The Hindu Hoax -- Chapter Ten. The Scapegoat
Chapter Eleven. The Legendary BacklashPart IV. Ida Rubinstein: The Phallic Female -- Chapter Twelve. The Queen of the Nile -- Chapter Thirteen. The Russian Salome -- Chapter Fourteen. Diaghilev�s Dilettante -- Chapter Fifteen. The Male Martyr -- Chapter Sixteen. La Folie d�Ida -- Chapter Seventeen. Salvation -- Part V. Colette: The Mental Hermaphrodite -- Chapter Eighteen. The Kiss -- Chapter Nineteen. Sido�s Masterpiece -- Chapter Twenty. Willy�s Ghost -- Chapter Twenty-One. The Barrier of Light -- Chapter Twenty-Two. The Mature Seductress -- Notes
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This text discusses the four women who personified Salome and performed her seductive dance, how Salome became a pop icon, and how her striptease became an act of glamorous empowerment.