Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture

Zusatztext [Roach] neither oversimplifies nor romanticizes stripping... What makes Roach's book different is her intensely personal concern about the ramifications of stripping... she puts real faces on abstract theories. Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Catherine M. Roach is Associate Professor of New College, and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies and Women's Studies, at The University of Alabama, USA. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998 and is also the author of Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2003). Zusammenfassung Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Marie/FoxyPart I. The Strip Club1. Stripping: Demeaning and/or Empowering? 2. The Work of A Stripper: Six-inch Heels and Pole Tricks3. 'A Lot of Guys Just Want to Talk' and (Other) Reality Costs of Stripping4. Where Fantasy Becomes RealityPart II. Stripping and Popular Culture 5. Striptease Culture: Thongs for Everywoman6. Strippers, Whores, and Sluts: 'Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics'7. At the Feet of the Goddess: Stripping, Sex, and SpiritualityConclusion: Take It Off!

Product details

• Authors: Catherine M. Roach, Catherine M Roach, Catherine M. Roach, Roach Catherine M.
• Assisted by: Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9781845201296
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-129-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Dress, Body, Culture (Paperbac; Dress, Body, Culture (Paperbac; Dress, Body, Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Gender studies, gender groups