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Reading the Erotic Body

ISBN-13: 9780271087771
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Maggie M. Werner
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Local release date: 14/01/2021
Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Research methods: general [GPS]

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Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric.

Informed by her own ethnographic research conducted in strip clubs and theaters, Werner analyzes the movement, dress, and cosmetic choices of topless dancers and neo-burlesque performers. Drawing on critical methods of analysis, she develops approaches for interpreting embodied erotic rhetoric and the marginal cultural practices that construct women’s public erotic bodies. She follows these bodies out into the streets, into the protest spaces where sex workers and anti-rape activists challenge discourses about morality and victimhood and struggle to remake their own identities. Throughout, Werner showcases the voices of these performers and in the analyses shares her experiences as an audience member, interviewer, and paying customer. The result is a uniquely personal and erudite study that advances conversations about women’s agency and erotic performance, moving beyond the binary that views the erotic body as either oppressed or empowered.

Theoretically sophisticated and delightfully intimate, Stripped is an important contribution to the study of the rhetoric of the body and to rhetorical and performance studies more broadly.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Embodied Criticism of the Erotic Body

1. Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric

2. “You’re Bound to Find Out She Don’t Love You”: Genre and the Erotic Body

3. The Pleasures of Process: Neo-burlesque’s Seductive Rhetoric

4. “I am a woman. This is my body”: Re-Articulating Identity in Sex-Work Activism

5. (Anti) Feminist Monsters: Alterity Rhetorics and the Signifying Body

Conclusion: Embodied Erotic Rhetoric’s Acceptance and Rejection

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