
Risque Business
Breastaurants in American Culture
Ty Matejowsky(Author)
The University of Alabama Press
Published on 31. August 2025
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-8173-2245-8 (ISBN)
Description
RisquE Business is the first book to culturally address "breastaurants," the American restaurant chains, particularly Hooters, that appeal mainly to a male demographic looking for pub fare served by young women in titillating uniforms. Following up the success of his Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary, author Ty Matejowsky approaches the phenomenon from a number of angles to illuminate gender and political issues in these problematic dining spaces. Avoiding trivialization of or moralizing about what can be seen as easy targets, he reveals breastaurants as highly corporatized spaces of pervasive casual misogyny that animate the Red State/Blue State divide.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-2245-8 (9780817322458)
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