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Taking It Off, Putting It on: Women in the Strip Trade

By Chris Bruckert

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0889614059, 9780889614055, 9781417584574
LCC
PN1949.S7 B78 2002
Open Library ID
OL3648659M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8499624 bytes)
Pages
182\194
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is a careful, studied, theoretical walk through "women and work." The author interviews female strippers to reveal the core of the world of the professional stripper. Bruckert contends that the audience's reading of the stripper's sexualised form does not erase her authorship; she is able to "put on" the audience while she is "taking it (her clothes) off." Bruckert was herself a stripper, and writes of feeling objectified by the usual feminist analysis of strippers. These feelings were the catalyst for her interest in women and work. She uses her intimate knowledge of the world of the stripper to journey to the heart and soul of the industry and allows the voice of the stripper to emerge as the "subject" in an experience in which she is usually objectified.

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