02910nam 2200553 a 450 991045186160332120200520144314.01-280-56417-20-19-802935-71-4294-2038-3(CKB)1000000000468210(EBL)272745(OCoLC)466427935(SSID)ssj0000252489(PQKBManifestationID)11227772(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000252489(PQKBWorkID)10175849(PQKB)11549597(MiAaPQ)EBC272745(Au-PeEL)EBL272745(CaPaEBR)ebr10263683(CaONFJC)MIL56417(EXLCZ)99100000000046821020040622d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStriptease[electronic resource] the untold history of the girlie show /Rachel ShteirNew York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (449 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-530076-9 0-19-512750-1 "A startled fawn upon the stage" -- Legs -- "Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts -- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque -- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway -- The first strippers and teasers -- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease -- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of -- The burlesque soul of striptease -- "Minskyville" -- "I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation -- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York -- Gypsy -- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque -- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair -- Striptease during wartime -- The private lives of strippers -- Stripty-second streets -- The seamy sides of striptease -- Striptease confidential -- You've gotta get a gimmick -- Topless dancing -- 1969: who killed striptease?Talks about striptease's Golden Age, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theaters, nightclubs, vaudeville houses, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the Great White Way. This book also features profiles of famed performers.StripteaseUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.StripteaseHistory792.7Shteir Rachel1964-932006MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451861603321Striptease2096321UNINA