04677nam 22011535 450 991078559350332120230107002440.01-283-27756-597866132775650-520-94831-910.1525/9780520948310(CKB)2670000000067520(EBL)631061(OCoLC)700701932(SSID)ssj0000471612(PQKBManifestationID)11331370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471612(PQKBWorkID)10427550(PQKB)11781862(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083820(DE-B1597)519717(OCoLC)703168415(DE-B1597)9780520948310(MiAaPQ)EBC631061(EXLCZ)99267000000006752020200424h20112011 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrNeon Wasteland On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town /Susan DeweyBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (282 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26690-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction --2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body --3. Everyday Survival Strategies --4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession --5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love --6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger --7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty --8. Conclusion --Notes --Works Cited --IndexThis path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.Sex industrySocial aspectsNortheastern StatesCase studiesWomen dancersSocial conditionsNortheastern statesCase studiesWomenFamily relationshipsNortheastern StatesCase studiesWomenNortheastern StatesCase studiesSelf-perception in womenNortheastern StatesCase studiesFemininityCase studiesNortheastern StatesSocial conditionsNortheastern StatesEconomic conditionsabuse.adultery.anthropology.cultural studies.economic justice.exotic dancers.exotic dancing.femininity.feminism.feminized labor.fidelity.gender studies.gender.gws.motherhood.needs.new york.nonfiction.performance.poverty.resilience.rust belt.self esteem.sex work.sex workers.sexual objectification.sexuality.social commentary.social science.social systems.strippers.topless dancers.vulnerability.women.womens issues.womens studies.womens work.Sex industrySocial aspectsWomen dancersSocial conditionsWomenFamily relationshipsWomenSelf-perception in womenFemininity155.3/33Dewey Susanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut781871DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910785593503321Neon Wasteland3690511UNINA