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ISBN 978-)-449-I0658-) SOCIOLOGY
rT780449 006580
Catherine M Roach
At the heart of Stripping Sex and Popular Culture lies a very personal story of author Catherine Roachs response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer Cat herine and Marie grew up t ogether in Ca nada and moved to t he USA to enroll In PhD programs at prestig ious unive rs ities For various reasons Mane left her prog ra m and instead chose to work as a stnpper
The author at fi rst t roubled and yet fascinated by her friend s dec ision fo llows Maries journey in to the world of stnpplng as an observer and analyst She-finds that this w orld raises complex questions about gender sexual ity fa ntasy feminism and even spi ritual it y
Moving f rom f irst hand Inte rv iews with dancers and others the book broadens into a provocative and acceSSible exam ination of the current popularity of striptease culture w ith sex-saturated media imagery thongs gone malnstrea rn and stri pper aerob iCS at your local gym Stripping Sex and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked t ruth of a lucrative Industry w hose norms are increasingly at t he center of contemporary society
Catherine M Roach is Associate Professor of New College and Affilishyated Faculty in Relig ious Studies and Womens Studies at The Un iversishyty of Alabama USA She received her PhD from Harvard Un iversity in 1998 and is also t he author of M other Nature Popular Culture and EnvIronmental Ethics (Indiana University Press 2003)
ISBN 978 I84520 129 8 Cmr Imlll 01111111111 Las Dlmo~11I1S D ~gROl (Iner PIClIIO) II Jom Aglelu Sblli Coyer DellRmn Des
~BERG
NEW YO RK
wwwbergpublisherscom
BERNADETTE BARTON
Sociology Gender Studies
Fascinating insightful and wonderfully balanced This book will take you way beyond Hollywoods cliches and into the realities of stripping and youll emerge with a deeper undershystanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies
- Susan Bordo author of Unbearable Weight Feminism Western Culture and the Body
A terrific read Stripped is the best kind of feminist work original honest and deeply engaging Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this world-its burdens of emotional labor social stigma exhaustion and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism ego-gratification intimacy and even spirituality
-Kathleen M Blee author of Inside Organized Racism Women in the Hate Movement
With Stripped Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex work-it is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them Yet of course things are never that simple-and Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking
- Katherine Frank author of G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
What kind of woman dances naked for money strip year after year Through captivating interviews Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip and first-hand observation Barton recounts why bars and clubs from upscale to back road as well these women began stripping the initial excitement as those that specialize in lapdancing table and financial rewards from the work the dangers of dancing topless only or peep shows to reveal the the life-namely drugs and prostitution- and the startling lives of exotic dancers difficulties in staying in the business over time
especially for their sexuality and self-esteem Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country particularly in San Stripped provides fresh Insight into the complex Francisco Hawaii and Kentucky Stripped offers a work and personal experiences of exotic dancers rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the going beyond the sex wars debate to offer an business but what its like for those who choose to important new understanding of sex work
BERNADETTE BARTON is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Womens
Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky
ISBN 978-0-8147-9933-8 Cover illustration and design by Jess Morphew 90000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington Square New York NY 10003
8 wwwnyupressorg
middot DANCE LIKEC~G I sWAT E tmiddot DallcerT[771 J 1IlJ all x tJ lCW IJen
ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
ISBN 978-)-449-I0658-) SOCIOLOGY
rT780449 006580
Catherine M Roach
At the heart of Stripping Sex and Popular Culture lies a very personal story of author Catherine Roachs response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer Cat herine and Marie grew up t ogether in Ca nada and moved to t he USA to enroll In PhD programs at prestig ious unive rs ities For various reasons Mane left her prog ra m and instead chose to work as a stnpper
The author at fi rst t roubled and yet fascinated by her friend s dec ision fo llows Maries journey in to the world of stnpplng as an observer and analyst She-finds that this w orld raises complex questions about gender sexual ity fa ntasy feminism and even spi ritual it y
Moving f rom f irst hand Inte rv iews with dancers and others the book broadens into a provocative and acceSSible exam ination of the current popularity of striptease culture w ith sex-saturated media imagery thongs gone malnstrea rn and stri pper aerob iCS at your local gym Stripping Sex and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked t ruth of a lucrative Industry w hose norms are increasingly at t he center of contemporary society
Catherine M Roach is Associate Professor of New College and Affilishyated Faculty in Relig ious Studies and Womens Studies at The Un iversishyty of Alabama USA She received her PhD from Harvard Un iversity in 1998 and is also t he author of M other Nature Popular Culture and EnvIronmental Ethics (Indiana University Press 2003)
ISBN 978 I84520 129 8 Cmr Imlll 01111111111 Las Dlmo~11I1S D ~gROl (Iner PIClIIO) II Jom Aglelu Sblli Coyer DellRmn Des
~BERG
NEW YO RK
wwwbergpublisherscom
BERNADETTE BARTON
Sociology Gender Studies
Fascinating insightful and wonderfully balanced This book will take you way beyond Hollywoods cliches and into the realities of stripping and youll emerge with a deeper undershystanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies
- Susan Bordo author of Unbearable Weight Feminism Western Culture and the Body
A terrific read Stripped is the best kind of feminist work original honest and deeply engaging Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this world-its burdens of emotional labor social stigma exhaustion and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism ego-gratification intimacy and even spirituality
-Kathleen M Blee author of Inside Organized Racism Women in the Hate Movement
With Stripped Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex work-it is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them Yet of course things are never that simple-and Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking
- Katherine Frank author of G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
What kind of woman dances naked for money strip year after year Through captivating interviews Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip and first-hand observation Barton recounts why bars and clubs from upscale to back road as well these women began stripping the initial excitement as those that specialize in lapdancing table and financial rewards from the work the dangers of dancing topless only or peep shows to reveal the the life-namely drugs and prostitution- and the startling lives of exotic dancers difficulties in staying in the business over time
especially for their sexuality and self-esteem Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country particularly in San Stripped provides fresh Insight into the complex Francisco Hawaii and Kentucky Stripped offers a work and personal experiences of exotic dancers rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the going beyond the sex wars debate to offer an business but what its like for those who choose to important new understanding of sex work
BERNADETTE BARTON is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Womens
Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky
ISBN 978-0-8147-9933-8 Cover illustration and design by Jess Morphew 90000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington Square New York NY 10003
8 wwwnyupressorg
middot DANCE LIKEC~G I sWAT E tmiddot DallcerT[771 J 1IlJ all x tJ lCW IJen
ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
Catherine M Roach
At the heart of Stripping Sex and Popular Culture lies a very personal story of author Catherine Roachs response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer Cat herine and Marie grew up t ogether in Ca nada and moved to t he USA to enroll In PhD programs at prestig ious unive rs ities For various reasons Mane left her prog ra m and instead chose to work as a stnpper
The author at fi rst t roubled and yet fascinated by her friend s dec ision fo llows Maries journey in to the world of stnpplng as an observer and analyst She-finds that this w orld raises complex questions about gender sexual ity fa ntasy feminism and even spi ritual it y
Moving f rom f irst hand Inte rv iews with dancers and others the book broadens into a provocative and acceSSible exam ination of the current popularity of striptease culture w ith sex-saturated media imagery thongs gone malnstrea rn and stri pper aerob iCS at your local gym Stripping Sex and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked t ruth of a lucrative Industry w hose norms are increasingly at t he center of contemporary society
Catherine M Roach is Associate Professor of New College and Affilishyated Faculty in Relig ious Studies and Womens Studies at The Un iversishyty of Alabama USA She received her PhD from Harvard Un iversity in 1998 and is also t he author of M other Nature Popular Culture and EnvIronmental Ethics (Indiana University Press 2003)
ISBN 978 I84520 129 8 Cmr Imlll 01111111111 Las Dlmo~11I1S D ~gROl (Iner PIClIIO) II Jom Aglelu Sblli Coyer DellRmn Des
~BERG
NEW YO RK
wwwbergpublisherscom
BERNADETTE BARTON
Sociology Gender Studies
Fascinating insightful and wonderfully balanced This book will take you way beyond Hollywoods cliches and into the realities of stripping and youll emerge with a deeper undershystanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies
- Susan Bordo author of Unbearable Weight Feminism Western Culture and the Body
A terrific read Stripped is the best kind of feminist work original honest and deeply engaging Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this world-its burdens of emotional labor social stigma exhaustion and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism ego-gratification intimacy and even spirituality
-Kathleen M Blee author of Inside Organized Racism Women in the Hate Movement
With Stripped Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex work-it is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them Yet of course things are never that simple-and Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking
- Katherine Frank author of G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
What kind of woman dances naked for money strip year after year Through captivating interviews Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip and first-hand observation Barton recounts why bars and clubs from upscale to back road as well these women began stripping the initial excitement as those that specialize in lapdancing table and financial rewards from the work the dangers of dancing topless only or peep shows to reveal the the life-namely drugs and prostitution- and the startling lives of exotic dancers difficulties in staying in the business over time
especially for their sexuality and self-esteem Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country particularly in San Stripped provides fresh Insight into the complex Francisco Hawaii and Kentucky Stripped offers a work and personal experiences of exotic dancers rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the going beyond the sex wars debate to offer an business but what its like for those who choose to important new understanding of sex work
BERNADETTE BARTON is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Womens
Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky
ISBN 978-0-8147-9933-8 Cover illustration and design by Jess Morphew 90000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington Square New York NY 10003
8 wwwnyupressorg
middot DANCE LIKEC~G I sWAT E tmiddot DallcerT[771 J 1IlJ all x tJ lCW IJen
ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
At the heart of Stripping Sex and Popular Culture lies a very personal story of author Catherine Roachs response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer Cat herine and Marie grew up t ogether in Ca nada and moved to t he USA to enroll In PhD programs at prestig ious unive rs ities For various reasons Mane left her prog ra m and instead chose to work as a stnpper
The author at fi rst t roubled and yet fascinated by her friend s dec ision fo llows Maries journey in to the world of stnpplng as an observer and analyst She-finds that this w orld raises complex questions about gender sexual ity fa ntasy feminism and even spi ritual it y
Moving f rom f irst hand Inte rv iews with dancers and others the book broadens into a provocative and acceSSible exam ination of the current popularity of striptease culture w ith sex-saturated media imagery thongs gone malnstrea rn and stri pper aerob iCS at your local gym Stripping Sex and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked t ruth of a lucrative Industry w hose norms are increasingly at t he center of contemporary society
Catherine M Roach is Associate Professor of New College and Affilishyated Faculty in Relig ious Studies and Womens Studies at The Un iversishyty of Alabama USA She received her PhD from Harvard Un iversity in 1998 and is also t he author of M other Nature Popular Culture and EnvIronmental Ethics (Indiana University Press 2003)
ISBN 978 I84520 129 8 Cmr Imlll 01111111111 Las Dlmo~11I1S D ~gROl (Iner PIClIIO) II Jom Aglelu Sblli Coyer DellRmn Des
~BERG
NEW YO RK
wwwbergpublisherscom
BERNADETTE BARTON
Sociology Gender Studies
Fascinating insightful and wonderfully balanced This book will take you way beyond Hollywoods cliches and into the realities of stripping and youll emerge with a deeper undershystanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies
- Susan Bordo author of Unbearable Weight Feminism Western Culture and the Body
A terrific read Stripped is the best kind of feminist work original honest and deeply engaging Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this world-its burdens of emotional labor social stigma exhaustion and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism ego-gratification intimacy and even spirituality
-Kathleen M Blee author of Inside Organized Racism Women in the Hate Movement
With Stripped Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex work-it is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them Yet of course things are never that simple-and Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking
- Katherine Frank author of G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
What kind of woman dances naked for money strip year after year Through captivating interviews Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip and first-hand observation Barton recounts why bars and clubs from upscale to back road as well these women began stripping the initial excitement as those that specialize in lapdancing table and financial rewards from the work the dangers of dancing topless only or peep shows to reveal the the life-namely drugs and prostitution- and the startling lives of exotic dancers difficulties in staying in the business over time
especially for their sexuality and self-esteem Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country particularly in San Stripped provides fresh Insight into the complex Francisco Hawaii and Kentucky Stripped offers a work and personal experiences of exotic dancers rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the going beyond the sex wars debate to offer an business but what its like for those who choose to important new understanding of sex work
BERNADETTE BARTON is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Womens
Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky
ISBN 978-0-8147-9933-8 Cover illustration and design by Jess Morphew 90000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington Square New York NY 10003
8 wwwnyupressorg
middot DANCE LIKEC~G I sWAT E tmiddot DallcerT[771 J 1IlJ all x tJ lCW IJen
ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
BERNADETTE BARTON
Sociology Gender Studies
Fascinating insightful and wonderfully balanced This book will take you way beyond Hollywoods cliches and into the realities of stripping and youll emerge with a deeper undershystanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies
- Susan Bordo author of Unbearable Weight Feminism Western Culture and the Body
A terrific read Stripped is the best kind of feminist work original honest and deeply engaging Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this world-its burdens of emotional labor social stigma exhaustion and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism ego-gratification intimacy and even spirituality
-Kathleen M Blee author of Inside Organized Racism Women in the Hate Movement
With Stripped Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex work-it is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them Yet of course things are never that simple-and Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking
- Katherine Frank author of G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
What kind of woman dances naked for money strip year after year Through captivating interviews Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip and first-hand observation Barton recounts why bars and clubs from upscale to back road as well these women began stripping the initial excitement as those that specialize in lapdancing table and financial rewards from the work the dangers of dancing topless only or peep shows to reveal the the life-namely drugs and prostitution- and the startling lives of exotic dancers difficulties in staying in the business over time
especially for their sexuality and self-esteem Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country particularly in San Stripped provides fresh Insight into the complex Francisco Hawaii and Kentucky Stripped offers a work and personal experiences of exotic dancers rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the going beyond the sex wars debate to offer an business but what its like for those who choose to important new understanding of sex work
BERNADETTE BARTON is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Womens
Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky
ISBN 978-0-8147-9933-8 Cover illustration and design by Jess Morphew 90000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington Square New York NY 10003
8 wwwnyupressorg
middot DANCE LIKEC~G I sWAT E tmiddot DallcerT[771 J 1IlJ all x tJ lCW IJen
ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
Sociology Gender Studies
Fascinating insightful and wonderfully balanced This book will take you way beyond Hollywoods cliches and into the realities of stripping and youll emerge with a deeper undershystanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies
- Susan Bordo author of Unbearable Weight Feminism Western Culture and the Body
A terrific read Stripped is the best kind of feminist work original honest and deeply engaging Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this world-its burdens of emotional labor social stigma exhaustion and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism ego-gratification intimacy and even spirituality
-Kathleen M Blee author of Inside Organized Racism Women in the Hate Movement
With Stripped Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex work-it is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them Yet of course things are never that simple-and Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking
- Katherine Frank author of G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
What kind of woman dances naked for money strip year after year Through captivating interviews Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip and first-hand observation Barton recounts why bars and clubs from upscale to back road as well these women began stripping the initial excitement as those that specialize in lapdancing table and financial rewards from the work the dangers of dancing topless only or peep shows to reveal the the life-namely drugs and prostitution- and the startling lives of exotic dancers difficulties in staying in the business over time
especially for their sexuality and self-esteem Based on over five years of research and from visiting clubs around the country particularly in San Stripped provides fresh Insight into the complex Francisco Hawaii and Kentucky Stripped offers a work and personal experiences of exotic dancers rare portrait of not just how dancers get into the going beyond the sex wars debate to offer an business but what its like for those who choose to important new understanding of sex work
BERNADETTE BARTON is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Womens
Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky
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ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
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Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
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middot DANCE LIKEC~G I sWAT E tmiddot DallcerT[771 J 1IlJ all x tJ lCW IJen
ERICAL FISHER
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
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Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
MEMOIR
DANCE LIKE ~~ IS WATCHING
Erica Fisher taught Sunday school to six-year-olds She had a son at 17 was divorced at 20 owned forty acres of real estate at 23 and received a masters degree at 27 Her story indulges the seemingly obvious contradictions of a lifestyle shared with stripping while showing a determination to not only find herself in her own life but also in others This book encourages others to reflect on their own judgments and conceptions of those around them Its about integrity a sense of self and true family love and understanding Ericas life in these pages explores uncertainties and also a hope that compassion can be found in acceptance
Erica Fisher left the world of exotic dancing in 2002 after stripping for almost four years Since then she has received a Masters Degree in Alternative Education and continues to help coach her sons Little League team She enjoys writing and this is her first published book She and Michael are still together The three of them live together in Pennsylvania
ISBN 0-595-41266-1 5 1 595
$1595 US 9 780595 412662 bull
~ iUniverse~ wwwiuniversecom
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111
2182016
Format
Amazoncom Customer Reviews Secret Sex Uves A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality
Sex as an Approach-Avoidance Conflict
R Grangaard on October 17 2
has merit not as a study of secret sex lives but as a refreshingly transparent autobiographical
of the authors personal integrating naturally motivated with her religious beliefs It is
utmost value to the never Alhattar individuals are more the product nature or nurture
As a sex study the book has meth1 American population The author makes no attempt at rltgtnm via Internet inquiries on
like Craigs List and Adult are better and participant
type studies in human published by other Stripping Sex and Popular
Culture by Catharine Roach Brothel Mustang and Its Women by Albert) llothing new is offered
into the sex lives of Americans that not already been researched and rrIfln in textbooks (eg middle-age
swingers are politically conservative highly educated professionals with a upbringing but typically no
attend church)
Throughout the book the author a healthy curiosity one contend many individuals with
convictions albeit by individuals who
entertain the same
validate and even own
relationships with over sexual interests that are
her desires and bares in an attempt to tackle an conflict that has consumed her
thoughts for decades
httpwwwamazoncomproduct-reviews0425219364ref=cm_cr _dp_srchfilterByKeyword=sex+as+an+approach-avoidance+conflictampsearch-alias=commu 111