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Burlesque West : Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver /

"After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West, the first critical history of the city's notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the N...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ross, Becki, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : beginnings, backlash, and brazenness
  • 1. Uncloaking the striptease past
  • 2. 'I ain't Rebecca, and this ain't Sunnybrook Farm' : men behind the marquee
  • 3. 'We were like snowflakes--no two were alike' : dancers and their gimmicks
  • 4. 'Peelers sell beer, and the money was huge' : the shifting conditions of selling fantasy
  • 5. 'Everyone wanted to date a dancer, nobody wanted to marry one' : occupational hazards in the industry
  • 6. 'You started to feel like a dinosaur' : exiting and aging in the business.