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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Intersections: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Genders and Sexualities Series |
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Intersections: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Genders and Sexualities Series
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Typical Shift; 1 Studying Strip Club Work: Context and Perspective; 2 "Keeping the Dancers in Check": The Gendered Organization of Stripping in The Lion's Den; 3 "It's a Nice Place to Hide, and It's Safe": The Making of Masculinities in The Lion's Den; 4 Tradeoffs and Troubles: Managing Stripping Labor; 5 Dollar Dances and Stage Dances: Strippers and Economic Exploitation; Postscript: The Lion's Den, 2005-2006; Appendix 1: Researching The Lion's Den; Appendix 2: Participant Descriptions of Life and Work; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D |
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EF; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author |
| Summary |
In Strip Club, Kim Price?Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers' stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting. Strip Club reveals the intimate working lives of not just the women up on stage, but also the patrons and other workers who make the place run: the owner?manager, bartenders, dejays, doormen, bouncers, housemoms, and cocktail waitresses. Price?Glynn spent fourteen months at The Lion's Den working as a cocktail waitress, and her uncommonly deep access reveals a c |
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Lions |
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Price-Glynn |
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about |
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access |
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agendas |
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cocktail |
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competing |
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conflict-ridden |
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deep |
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economic |
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fourteen |
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fueled |
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ideas |
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interests |
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labor |
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men |
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months |
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race |
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reveals |
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sexuality |
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spent |
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stereotypical |
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uncommonly |
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value |
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waitress |
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women |
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working |
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workplace |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sex industry -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
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Stripteasers -- United States -- Case studies
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Power (Social sciences) -- Case studies
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Sex role -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Sex industry -- Social aspects
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Sex role
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Stripteasers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814768532 |
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0814768539 |
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