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Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image.


Josephine Baker
This page is for the American entertainer. For the first female director of Public Health, see Sara Josephine Baker.


Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in francophone countries) (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975)[1]
 in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image By Bennetta Jules-Rosette University of Illinois Press The University of Illinois Press (UIP), is a major American university press and part of the University of Illinois. Overview
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, April 2007 $60, ISBN ISBN
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ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 
 0-252-03157-1

Josephine Baker would have celebrated her 100th birthday last year. In Jules-Rosette's latest book, the author, who is an anthropologists, goes beyond Baker's banana skirt and danse sauvage to present an analytical cultural study of the life and the legacy of the sensual sen·su·al
adj.
1. Relating to or affecting any of the senses or a sense organ; sensory.

2. Of, relating to, given to, or providing gratification of the physical and especially the sexual appetites.
 performer, humanitarian, philanthropist and civil rights activist.
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Date:May 1, 2007
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