 |  | | | Salomania | Wednesday 26 June 2002 | | |
Salomania was an extraordinary cultural phenomenon which spread throughout Europe and America at the beginning of the 20th century.
It has its origins in the 1893 play Salome by Oscar Wilde in which he resurrected the Old Testament's bad girl. Salome inspired the idea of the femme fatale. But were the women who danced as Salome liberated early feminists? And is stripping really an act of empowerment?
Sheila talks to Toni Bentley, the author of Sisters of Salome which details the Salomania craze and Guardian journalist, Katherine Viner.
Sisters of Salome, Katherine Viner, Yale University Press; ISBN: 0300090390
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