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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971497503321

Autore

Liepe-Levinson Katherine <1953->

Titolo

Strip show : performances of gender and desire / / Katherine Liepe-Levinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-134-68869-5

0-585-46490-1

9780585464901

0-203-44962-2

1-280-21734-0

1-134-68870-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Gender in performance

Disciplina

792.7

Soggetti

Striptease

Striptease - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Strip show: Performances of gender and desire; Urban locations of desire: A tale of five cities; Interiors; Costume dramas and sexual subjectivity; Choreography I: The basic moves; Choreography II: Structure, pleasure, and ~confessional~ narratives of the body; Performing spectators: The pleasure of mimetic jeopardy; Epilogue as intermezzo: The saga of the strip show, or the battles over sexual representation rage on; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.