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G-Strings and Sympathy - Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire

English · Paperback / Softback

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"G-Strings and Sympathy" effortlessly merges the personal with the polemical, the scholarly with the serendipitous, and the earthy with the esoteric. Informed, intelligent, yet always accessible, Katherine Frank's writing sheds a piercing beam of light on the shadowy realm of exotic dance."--Lily Burana, author of "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America "

List of contents










Acknowledgments ix

Preface: Skin Brings Men xiii

Part One

Chapter 1 Observing the Observers: Methods and Themes 1

Chapter 2 Laurelton and Its Strip Clubs: The Historical, Physical, and Social Terrain 39

Part Two

Interlude: Strawberries (fiction) 79

Chapter 3 Just Trying to Relax: Masculinity, Touristic Practice, and the Idiosyncrasies of Power 85

Chapter 4 The Pursuit of the Fantasy Penis: Bodies, Desires, and Ambiguities 121

Part Three

Interlude: Fakes (fiction) 159

Chapter 5 "I'm Not Like the Other Guys": Claims to Authentic Experience 173

Chapter 6 Hustlers, Pros, and the Girl Next Door: Social Class, Race, and the Consumption of the Authentic Female Body 203

Part Four

Interlude: The Management of Hunger (fiction) 231

Chapter 7 The Crowded Bedroom: Marriage, Monogamy, and Fantasy 241

Chapter 8 Disciplining Erotic Practice 273

Appendix 281

Notes 285

Bibliography 311

Index 327

About the author










Katherine Frank is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the College of the Atlantic.


Summary

Provides an account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating heterosexual, male strip club "regulars." This title shows how the dynamics of male pleasure and privilege in strip clubs are intertwined with ideas about what it means to be a man in contemporary America.

Product details

Authors FRANK, Katherine Frank
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 05.12.2002
 
EAN 9780822329725
ISBN 978-0-8223-2972-5
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 153 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
Weight 581 g
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

Erotische Literatur, FICTION / Erotica / General, Fiction - Adult, PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy

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