Preface Introduction--America Meets the New Dancing Women, Recoils in Shock, and Yet Whispers "Come a Little Bit Closer"; The Hurdy Gurdy Girls, Burlesque Women, Little Egypts, and Taxi Dancers of the 1880s-1910s Chapter One--The New Dancers Come to Maine; Disruption in the Dance Halls, Gold and Silver Purses for Prizes, and Scandal on the Stage, 1900-1923 Chapter Two--As Long as You Stay on Your Feet; The Vaudeville Queens, Taxi-Dancers, and the Early Contest and Endurance Dancers Earn Their Dimes and Dollars Dancing Along the Roadways and in the Dance Halls from Old Orchard Beach to Bangor, Maine, 1923-1932 Chapter Three--Dancing in Paradise, Burning in Hell; The Long-Term Endurance Indoor Dance Marathons of Maine, the Fatal Fire at the Paradise Dance Pavillion, and How What Happened in Maine Changed the Nation, 1930-1935 Chapter Four--The Search for More; Burlesque Masquerades as Vaudeville in Maine, as The Silver Screen Plays the Hootchie Coohcie in its Carnival and Bare Belly Beauties, 1934-1944 Chapter Five--The Dance Didn't Go On, And They Really Weren't Strippers; The Maine Shipyard Workers' Riot of 1944, "The Girl Problem in Portland," and other Social Transitions in Dance and Society, 1944-1954 Chapter Six--The Fight For the Fifties and Sixties; Ethnic Dancing (largely Greek and Turkish belly Dancing), Vaudeville, Burlesque, and the Lure of Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s Chapter Seven--The Great Divergence and the United States Supreme Court; Strippers Come to Maine and Elsewhere, the Lines are Drawn, and the Other Dancers Struggle to Define Just Who They Are, 1960s-1970s Chapter Eight--Little Egypt Grows Up, and Emerges as the Queen of The Coast; Ethnic and Belly Dancing in Maine, 1970-2000 Chapter Nine--The Same Old Moves with New Respectability, at Least in the Eyes of Many: Maine's Transformed Belly Dancers, Taxi-Dancers, and Burlesque Performers of the Late 1990s and Early 2000s Conclusion Index
