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Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers

  • ISBN-13: 9780814799338
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
  • By Bernadette Barton
  • Price: AUD $56.99
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  • Local release date: 01/05/2006
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 195 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Dance [ASD]Cultural studies [JFC]
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What kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lapdancing, table dancing, topless only, or peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers.Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country, particularly in San Francisco, Hawaii, and Kentucky, Stripped offers a rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the business but what its like for those who choose to strip year after year. Through captivating interviews and first-hand observation, Barton recounts why these women began stripping, the initial excitement and financial rewards from the work, the dangers of the life--namely, drugs and prostitution--and, inevitably, the difficulties in staying in the business over time, especially for their sexuality and self-esteem.Stripped provides fresh insight into the complex work and personal experiences of exotic dancers, one that goes beyond the "sex wars" debate to offer an important new understanding of sex work.

Bernadette Barton is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Morehead State University. She is the author of The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Our Society, Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers, and Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays.

 

 

 PrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: Come Inside and See the Show1 Becoming a Stripper 2 Dancing on the Mobius Strip 3 Bad Girls 4 The Toll 5 "You Have to Be Sexually Open" 6 Sticking Together 7 "Everything Is Not Okay"Notes References Index About the Author

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