Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work - Couverture souple

Price-Glynn, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814767613 ISBN 13 : 9780814767610

Editeur : New York University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers' stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting. Strip Club reveals the intimate working lives of not just the women up on stage, but also the patrons and other workers who make the place run: the owner‒manager, bartenders, dejays, doormen, bouncers, housemoms, and cocktail waitresses.

Price‒Glynn spent fourteen months at The Lion's Den working as a cocktail waitress, and her uncommonly deep access reveals a conflict‒ridden workplace, similar to any other workplace, one where gender inequalities are reproduced through the everyday interactions of customers and workers. Taking a novel approach to this controversial and often misunderstood industry, Price‒Glynn draws a fascinating portrait of life and work inside the strip club.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kim Price-Glynn is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814767613
• ISBN 13: 9780814767610
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
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• Personne responsable: non disponible