Strip
The Making of a Feminist
Erschienen am 29. Juni 2018
192 Seiten
978-1-78535-738-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The exotic dancer exists in popular culture most often as scenery. When she is allowed to speak, she does so to the male protagonist and is either the conniving woman attempting to relieve the hero of the cash in his wallet, or fallen woman in need of rescue. She is rarely named, existing only as a backdrop, red lights flashing on pliant flesh like a crime scene. She is white, blonde, slim, with large breasts. She is stripper Barbie, plastic porn. Strip brings nuance to a subject that is often overlooked, ignored, or otherwise silenced. To all readers of human culture interested in the anthropology of what it means to be a sex object in modern America, this book is about much more than stripping. It argues that gentlemen's clubs are a microcosm that distills the female experience of patriarchal culture. On the body of woman is written male desire. In the eyes of woman, gazing at the male, culture can truly be seen.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Collective Ink
Dateigröße
2,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-738-1 (9781785357381)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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Person
Catlyn Ladd performed in gentleman's clubs for five years while pursuing an education. She now works as a college professor teaching philosophy, religion, and women's studies. She lives in Colorado, USA.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Section I: Into the Abyss
- Chapter One: The Beginning
- Chapter Two: Stripper Barbie
- Chapter Three: A Bad Night
- Chapter Four: Material Girl
- Chapter Five: Body Property
- Chapter Six: Fetish
- Chapter Seven: Object of the Gaze I Become
- Section II: The Dialectic of the Abyss
- Chapter Eight: Fast and Loud
- Chapter Nine: In Love
- Chapter Ten: Skin
- Chapter Eleven: Creep Show
- Chapter Twelve: The Virgin
- Chapter Thirteen: Couple's Therapy
- Chapter Fourteen: Black and Blue
- Chapter Fifteen: The Addict
- Chapter Sixteen: The Female Gaze
- Section III: The Abyss Gazes Back
- Chapter Seventeen: The Cross-Dresser
- Chapter Eighteen: Rain
- Chapter Nineteen: Pretty Boy
- Chapter Twenty: The Renaissance Man
- Chapter Twenty-One: This Is My Body Moving Electric
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Athena, Stripped
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Into the Deep
- Reading Questions
- Bibliography
