03588nam 2200721Ia 450 991082691070332120200520144314.01-283-27756-597866132775650-520-94831-910.1525/9780520948310(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)99267000000006752020100520d2011 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrNeon wasteland on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town /Susan Dewey1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20111 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.FemininityCase studiesSelf-perception in womenNortheastern StatesCase studiesSex-oriented businessesSocial aspectsNortheastern StatesCase studiesWomen dancersNortheastern StatesCase studiesWomenFamily relationshipsNortheastern StatesCase studiesWomenNortheastern StatesSocial conditionsCase studiesNortheastern StatesEconomic conditionsNortheastern StatesSocial conditionsFemininitySelf-perception in womenSex-oriented businessesSocial aspectsWomen dancersWomenFamily relationshipsWomenSocial conditions155.3/33Dewey Susan781871MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826910703321Neon Wasteland4045457UNINA