Lela F. Kerley’s Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Époqueexamines the social and political significance of erotic entertainment featuring nude women—la femme nue—in fin-de-siècle Paris. A number of scholars, including Charles Rearick, Patricia Tilburg, Rae Beth Gordon, Sarah Gutsche-Miller, and Catherine Hindson, have considered popular performance practice at this period; Kerley takes up the subject to trace the parallel histories of the rise of erotic entertainment and of concomitant efforts to regulate female nudity, arguing that the proliferation of nude spectacles served to stimulate and shape debates about gender and moral norms in France.