Introduction: Marie/Foxy Part I. The Strip Club1. Stripping: Demeaning and/or Empowering? 2. The Work of A Stripper: Six-inch Heels and Pole Tricks 3. 'A Lot of Guys Just Want to Talk' and (Other) Reality Costs of Stripping 4. Where Fantasy Becomes Reality Part II. Stripping and Popular Culture 5. Striptease Culture: Thongs for Everywoman 6. Strippers, Whores, and Sluts: 'Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics' 7. At the Feet of the Goddess: Stripping, Sex, and Spirituality Conclusion: Take It Off!
Also available in hardback, 9781845201289 GBP55.00 (November, 2007)
Catherine M. Roach is Associate Professor of New College, and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies and Women's Studies, at The University of Alabama, USA. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998 and is also the author of Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2003).
[Roach] neither oversimplifies nor romanticizes stripping... What
makes Roach's book different is her intensely personal concern
about the ramifications of stripping... she puts real faces on
abstract theories. Recommended.
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