Berson Jessica (Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Harvard University)
Berson Jessica (Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Harvard University) - The Naked Result How Exotic Dance Became Big Business - Hardcover
Berson Jessica (Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Harvard University) - The Naked Result How Exotic Dance Became Big Business - Hardcover
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Description: We have grown accustomed to the ubiquity of corporate influence in retail outlets restaurants and even higher education - but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of striptease tracing its path from the unruly underground to brightly lit branded "gentlemen's clubs." Drawing on her own experience as an exotic dancer Jessica Berson examines the ways that striptease embodies conflicting notions of race class and female sexuality and how the exotic dance industry deploys these differences to codify and commodify our erotic imagination. Chain clubs fitness programs and music videos are moving exotic dance into the mainstream and stripping its historical potential to embody and express subversive desires - erotic and otherwise - and generate resistant modes of female erotic subjectivity. Through case studies including Boston's Combat Zone in the 1970s - 80s the development of lap dancing in London in the 1990s and the triumph of corporate striptease in post - Giuliani New York City in the last decade The Naked Result reveals an industry that increasingly eradicates individuality and agency in order to increase profits. Ultimately The Naked Result argues that corporatization has cheerfully smothered the diversity of sexual desire and expression for both dancers and customers repackaging the most mysterious human emotions into easily branded experiences no more personal or powerful than those to be found in any themed restaurant or coffee mega - chain.
Title: The Naked Result How Exotic Dance Became Big Business
Author(s): Berson Jessica (Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Harvard University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199846207
Pages: 294 Pages, 36 Photographs
Publication Date: 2/1/2016
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: We have grown accustomed to the ubiquity of corporate influence in retail outlets restaurants and even higher education - but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of striptease tracing its path from the unruly underground to brightly lit branded "gentlemen's clubs." Drawing on her own experience as an exotic dancer Jessica Berson examines the ways that striptease embodies conflicting notions of race class and female sexuality and how the exotic dance industry deploys these differences to codify and commodify our erotic imagination. Chain clubs fitness programs and music videos are moving exotic dance into the mainstream and stripping its historical potential to embody and express subversive desires - erotic and otherwise - and generate resistant modes of female erotic subjectivity. Through case studies including Boston's Combat Zone in the 1970s - 80s the development of lap dancing in London in the 1990s and the triumph of corporate striptease in post - Giuliani New York City in the last decade The Naked Result reveals an industry that increasingly eradicates individuality and agency in order to increase profits. Ultimately The Naked Result argues that corporatization has cheerfully smothered the diversity of sexual desire and expression for both dancers and customers repackaging the most mysterious human emotions into easily branded experiences no more personal or powerful than those to be found in any themed restaurant or coffee mega - chain.
Title: The Naked Result How Exotic Dance Became Big Business
Author(s): Berson Jessica (Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Lecturer In Dramatic Arts Harvard University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199846207
Pages: 294 Pages, 36 Photographs
Publication Date: 2/1/2016
Category: Gender Studies: Women
