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Author Ross, Becki, 1959-

Title Burlesque West : showgirls, sex and sin in postwar Vancouver / Becki L. Ross
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Preface : beginnings, backlash, and brazenness -- 1. Uncloaking the striptease past -- 2. 'I ain't Rebecca, and this ain't Sunnybrook Farm' : men behind the marquee -- 3. 'We were like snowflakes--no two were alike' : dancers and their gimmicks -- 4. 'Peelers sell beer, and the money was huge' : the shifting conditions of selling fantasy -- 5. 'Everyone wanted to date a dancer, nobody wanted to marry one' : occupational hazards in the industry -- 6. 'You started to feel like a dinosaur' : exiting and aging in the business
Summary "After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West, the first critical history of the city's notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver - which provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, Burlesque West is an ambitious and engaging social history that looks at the convergence of the personal and the political in a phenomenon that combines sex, art and entertainment, and commerce."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-333) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Burlesque (Theater) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Striptease -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Stripteasers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Showgirls -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Nightlife -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Sex industry -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century
Burlesque (Theater) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
Stripteasers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
Showgirls -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
Nightlife -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Burlesque (Theater)
Nightlife
Sex industry
Showgirls
Striptease
Stripteasers
Erotischer Tanz
Nachtleben
Striptease
SUBJECT Vancouver (B.C.) -- History
Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver
Vancouver British Columbia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442697225
1442697229
9781442697843
1442697849