Strip Show : Performances of Gender and Desire
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gender in Performance
ISBN-10
0415173809
ISBN-13
9780415173803
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 2001
Print length
266 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Dimensions
16.60 x 24.10 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Dance & other performing artsGender studies, gender groups
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Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease in North America: this is the first full length theoretically informed study of striptease.
This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex roles, cultural positions, and performance practices of ''straight'' strip shows during their second heyday in the early 1990s.
Katherine Liepe-Levinson''s research took her to over seventy different strip bars, clubs, theatres and sex emporiums ranging from elaborate lap-dancing and couch-dancing ''gentlemen''s'' clubs in New York, Houston, and San Francisco; to Peoria''s onetime duplex cabaret where women strip for men downstairs, and men for women upstairs; to the nightclubs of Montreal where female and male performers displayed the ''Full Monty''.
Liepe-Levinson''s intriguing, comprehensive study concentrates on the cultural and theatrical elements of the strip shows themselves including the geographic locations and interior designs of the clubs, the choreography and costumes of the dancers and the all-important participation of the audience. She draws upon a variety of methodologies as well as interviews with performers to explore how the strip show''s cultural and theatrical aspects simultaneously uphold and break traditional sex roles. Her findings readily complicate several of the most prominent and prevalent theories about sexual representation, gender and desire.
Katherine Liepe-Levinson''s research took her to over seventy different strip bars, clubs, theatres and sex emporiums ranging from elaborate lap-dancing and couch-dancing ''gentlemen''s'' clubs in New York, Houston, and San Francisco; to Peoria''s onetime duplex cabaret where women strip for men downstairs, and men for women upstairs; to the nightclubs of Montreal where female and male performers displayed the ''Full Monty''.
Liepe-Levinson''s intriguing, comprehensive study concentrates on the cultural and theatrical elements of the strip shows themselves including the geographic locations and interior designs of the clubs, the choreography and costumes of the dancers and the all-important participation of the audience. She draws upon a variety of methodologies as well as interviews with performers to explore how the strip show''s cultural and theatrical aspects simultaneously uphold and break traditional sex roles. Her findings readily complicate several of the most prominent and prevalent theories about sexual representation, gender and desire.
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