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oapen-20.500.12657-346332022-04-26T12:22:54Z Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture Roach, Catherine M. cultural studies sociology culturele studies sociologie Human sexuality Prostitution Sex-positive movement Strip club Stripper Striptease bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper. The author, at first troubled and yet fascinated by her friend's decision, follows Marie's journey into the world of stripping as an observer and analyst. She finds that this world raises complex questions about gender, sexuality, fantasy, feminism, and even spirituality. Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, the book broadens into a provocative and accessible examination of the current popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, thongs gone mainstream, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked truth of a lucrative industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book <br/><br/>broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease<br/><br/> culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at <br/><br/>your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose <br/><br/>norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.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). 2011-08-09 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:21:48Z 2020-04-01T15:21:48Z 2007 book 390772 OCN: 605535831 808382319 9781847883476 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34633 eng Dress, Body, Culture application/pdf n/a 390772.pdf http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=2215 Berg Publishers 10.26530/OAPEN_390772 10.26530/OAPEN_390772 d553c67e-4dd4-4b05-9899-5fda875f4b25 780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4 9781847883476 OAPEN-UK 224 Oxford OAPEN-UK open access
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At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper. The author, at first troubled and yet fascinated by her friend's decision, follows Marie's journey into the world of stripping as an observer and analyst. She finds that this world raises complex questions about gender, sexuality, fantasy, feminism, and even spirituality. Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, the book broadens into a provocative and accessible examination of the current popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, thongs gone mainstream, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked truth of a lucrative industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book <br/><br/>broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease<br/><br/> culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at <br/><br/>your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose <br/><br/>norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.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).
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