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Neon wasteland : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town / / Susan Dewey



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Autore: Dewey Susan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Neon wasteland : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town / / Susan Dewey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
Disciplina: 155.3/33
Soggetto topico: Femininity
Self-perception in women - Northeastern States
Sex-oriented businesses - Social aspects - Northeastern States
Women dancers - Northeastern States
Women - Family relationships - Northeastern States
Women - Northeastern States - Social conditions
Soggetto geografico: Northeastern States Economic conditions
Northeastern States Social conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Neon Wasteland  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27756-5
9786613277565
0-520-94831-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826910703321
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