Strip Club

Gender, Power, and Sex Work

Author: Kim Price-Glynn
ISBN: 9780814767610

"Reads like a novel with a detailed cast of characters! With stripper poles an increasingly ubiquitous fixture in the media, there remains surprisingly little scholarship written about the day-to-day lives of people working in strip bars. Price-Glynn reveals the grit beneath the pop-video clichT in Strip Club, offering the reader an insider's gaze on the employees of The Lion's Den. Strip Club exposes a taken for granted sexism we need to be reminded of in our Girls Gone Wild culture."-Bernadette Barton, author of Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers"The second I entered The Lion's Den, passing the doorman through darkened hallways toward a parquet dancing stage, Price-Glynn's rich description brought me into the dilapidated and ironically profitable (for some) world of the strip club. Her deeply affecting observations make us keenly aware of the social practices that perpetuate gross inequalities. Her ethnography is both brutally honest, and sociologically sophisticated in its

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 2010-09-14

Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General, Psychology / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sex Work)