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Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance

Author : Tina H Deshotels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000441938
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance written by Tina H Deshotels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance examines the social phenomenon of exotic dancing. Presenting a compelling multilevel analysis of dancer interactions, organizational practices, and institutional forces, this book challenges our understanding of sexuality and power. Centering the voices and experiences of exotic dancers, this book explores the relationship between exotic dancing and power at the micro-interactional, meso-organizational, and macro-institutional levels, informing a feminist theory of power that seeks out systems of domination in order to challenge and change them. Through direct interviews and observations collected between 1993 and 2021 from 40 different clubs in the United States, Deshotels and Forsyth demystify the seemingly contrary findings about exotic dancing and power. They show how and why individual dancers can be simultaneously empowered and exploited beyond individual traits, interactions, or settings in the nexus of gender and power in exotic dancing. The book will be useful for scholarly readers in the subject areas of sociology, cultural studies, gender/sexualities studies, sex work, and organizations theory. Written in a clear, accessible manner, this book will also appeal to a general audience interested in understanding the complex interactions of gender, power, feminism, and exotic dance.

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance

Author : TINA H. FORSYTH DESHOTELS (CRAIG J.)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367466831
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance written by TINA H. FORSYTH DESHOTELS (CRAIG J.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance examines the social phenomenon of exotic dancing. Presenting a compelling multi-level analysis of dancer interactions, organizational practices, and institutional forces, this book challenges our understanding of sexuality and power. Centering the voices and experiences of exotic dancers, this book explores the relationship between exotic dancing and power at the micro-interactional, meso-organizational and macro-institutional levels, informing a feminist theory of power that seeks out systems of domination in order to challenge and change them. Through direct interviews and observations collected between 1993 and 2021 at forty different clubs in the USA, Deshotels and Forsyth demystify the seemingly contrary findings about exotic dancing and power. They show how and why individual dancers can be both and simultaneously empowered and exploited beyond individual traits, interactions, or settings in the nexus of gender and power in exotic dancing. The book will be useful for scholarly readers in the subject areas of sociology, cultural studies, gender/sexualities studies, sex work, and organizations theory. Written in a clear, accessible manner, this book will also appeal to a general audience interested in understanding the complex interactions of gender, power, feminism, and exotic dance.

Trafficking and Sex Work

Author : Mathilde Darley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000826856
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Trafficking and Sex Work written by Mathilde Darley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation. Many actors, from media to researchers, from nonprofit organizations to law enforcement agencies, from "experts" to "reality tourists", contribute to produce knowledge on trafficking and sexual exploitation and thus to institutionalize it as a category of thought and action; by naming and framing perpetrators and victims, they make trafficking "come true" as a public problem. The book pays particular attention to the way the international expertise produced by these different actors and institutions on sexual exploitation and sex work impacts local control practices, especially with regard to law enforcement. The fight against trafficking as it gets institutionalized and put into practice then appears as a way to reaffirm a gendered and racialized public order. Building analytical bridges between different national contexts and relying on contextualized fieldwork in different countries, the book is of great interest for academics as well as for practitioners and/or activists working on sex and gender issues and migration policies. Also, it resonates with a broader literature on the construction of public problems in sociology and political science.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale

Author : Jeanett Bjønness
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429876726
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale written by Jeanett Bjønness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race. Stigma is about relationships between people and also sets an interpretative frame whereby people understand and react to situations and actions, and the book is developed and organized to investigate this from various angles. It presents empirical studies that build on and expand the scholarship on stigma and sex work. This means that it contributes to a more complex understanding of stigma in sex work studies. Further, by using the example of sew work to explore how we can best understand the production and consequences of stigma, the book makes a contribution that is relevant for all scholars who work on stigma and stigmatization. The book is intended for academic audiences interested in sex work or prostitution, on the one hand, and stigmatization, on the other. It is also intended for students in a broad range of disciplines, as well as for practitioners and activists who encounter or work with stigmatization or stigmatized populations.

Lived Experiences and Negotiated Gender

Author : Jennifer Kara Wesely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Lived Experiences and Negotiated Gender written by Jennifer Kara Wesely and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Naked Lives

Author : Mindy S. Bradley-Engen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426321
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Naked Lives written by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is stripping good or bad for the women who do it? According to sociologist Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, there's no simple answer. An exotic dancer's experiences can be both empowering and degrading: at times a dancer can feel like a goddess, at times ashamed and dirty. Drawing on extensive interviews as well as her own experiences as an exotic dancer, Bradley-Engen shows that strippers' work experiences are shaped by the types of establishments—the different worlds—in which they work. A typology of strip clubs emerges: the hustle club, the show club, and the social club, each with its own distinct culture, expectations, and challenges, each creating circumstances in which stripping can be good, bad, or indifferent. Going beyond the warring rhetorics of exploitation and empowerment, this book provides a rich and complex account of the realities of exotic dance and offers a fascinating, thought-provoking consideration for both academics and general readers.

Dance, Gender and Culture

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349227471
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Dance, Gender and Culture written by Helen Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...full credit to Thomas and Macmillan for embarking on such a worthwhile venture - Dance Research I have already found the Thomas edition of enormous value in teaching both undergraduates and postgraduates, from the perspectives of dance anthropology, ethnography and theatre dance analysis - Theresa Buckland, Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey This unique collection of papers, written specially for this volume, explores the aspects of the ways in which dance and gender intersect in a variety of cultural contexts, from social and disco dance to performance dance, to the Hollywood musical and dances from different cultures. The contributors come from a broad range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, dance studies, film studies, and journalism. They bring to the book a wide body of ideas and approaches, including feminism, psychoanalysis, ethnography and subcultural theory. List of Plates - Preface to the 1995 Reprint - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: CULTURAL STUDIES - Dance, Gender and Culture; T.Polhumus - Dancing in the Dark: Rationalism and the Neglect of Social Dance; A.Ward - Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power; C.J.Novack - 'I Seem to Find the Happiness I Seek': Heterosexuality and Dance in the Musical; R.Dyer - PART 2: ETHNOGRAPHY - An-Other Voice: Young Women Dancing and Talking; H.Thomas - Gender Interchangeability among the Tiwi; A.Grau - 'Saturday Night Fever': An Ethnography of Disco Dancing; D.Walsh - Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status; J.L.Hanna - PART 3: THEORY/CRITICISM - Dance, Feminism and the Critique of the Visual; R.Copeland - 'You put your left foot in, then you shake it all about ...': Excursions and Incursions into Feminism and Bausch's Tanztheater; A.Sanchez-Colberg - 'She might pirouette on a daisy and it would not bend': Images of Femininity and Dance Appreciation; L-A.Sayers - Still Dancing Downwards and Talking Back; Z.Oyortey - The Anxiety of Dance Performance; V.Rimmer - Index

Commanding Words

Author : Lynda Chouiten
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892130
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Commanding Words written by Lynda Chouiten and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a twenty-first century which celebrates freedom and equality while also beginning to question the lax attitudes and methods which have triumphed since the late Sixties, reflecting on the concept of authority is as necessary as ever. What role does, and should, authority play in political, social, and academic organization? Should one plead for stricter or more flexible authority? Where does the frontier between authority and authoritarianism lie? In examining these, and other related questions, this volume, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse, also discusses the rhetorical strategies whereby authority is constructed, manifested, and resisted. Pertaining to subjects as various as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters which constitute this book offer an interdisciplinary, yet thematically coherent, coverage of the question under discussion, and encompass a wide historical and spatial scope, which ranges from the Islamic Middle Ages to twenty-first century America, passing through nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, India, and North Africa on the way.

Femininity, Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing

Author : Kerry Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317649184
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Femininity, Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing written by Kerry Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of pole dancing as an increasingly popular fitness and leisure activity for women. It moves beyond previous debates surrounding the empowering or degrading nature of pole dancing classes, and instead explores the complexities of these concepts and highlights that women participating in this practice cannot be seen as one dimensional. Femininity, Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing explores the construction, negotiation and presentation of a gendered and classed identity and self through participation in pole dancing, the meaning of pole dancing as a fitness practice for women, and the concepts of community and friendship as developed through classes. Using empirical research, the book uncovers the stories and experiences of the women who participate in these classes, and examines what the mainstreaming of this type of sexualised dance means for the women who practice it. Pole dancing is shown to be a practice in which female identities are negotiated, performed and enacted and this book positions pole dancing as an activity which both reinforces but also presents some challenge to ideas of feminism and femininity for the women that participate. Women's participation in pole dancing is described in a discourse of choice and control, yet this book argues that the decision to participate is somewhat constructed by the advertising of these classes as enabling women to create a particular desirable self, which is perpetuated throughout our culture as the ‘ideal’. Exploring the ways in which women attempt to manage impressions and present themselves as ‘respectable’, the book examines how women wish to dis-identify with both women who work as strippers and women who are feminist, seeing both identities as contradictory to the feminine image that they pursue. The book explores the capacity of these classes to offer women some feelings of agency but challenges the idea that participating in pole dancing can offer collective empowerment. The book ultimately argues that women’s participation can be viewed both in terms of their active engagement and enjoyment of these classes and in terms of the structures and pressures which continue to shape their lives. This timely publication explores the complexity of the pole dancing phenomenon and highlights a range of questions surrounding this activity as a leisure form. It will be a valuable contribution to those interested in women’s and gender studies, cultural studies, feminism, sociology and leisure studies.

Image and Territory

Author : Jennifer Burwell
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920487X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Image and Territory written by Jennifer Burwell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him international cult status as one of the most revered of all contemporary directors, Egoyan's forays into installation art and opera have provided evidence of his versatility and confirmed his talents. Throughout his career, Atom Egoyan has shown himself to possess the rarest kind of singularity. As Jonathan Romney puts it, Egoyanþs 2preoccupations and tropes have been so consistent that he's practically created his own genre3 (1995, 8). Hrag Vartanian adds, 2Egoyanesque has become a word to film aficionados, commonly understood to mean a cinematic moment that examines sexuality, technology and alienation in the modern world3 (2004). For this singularity, Egoyan is widely hailed as a true auteur, ƯƯsomeone carrying on the legacy of the European art-house traditions of Bergman, Godard, and Truffaut. Certainly, his work bears a most recognizable signatureƯƯthere is no confusing an Egoyan work with anyone elseþs. Like his art-house predecessors, Egoyan clearly intends that his work be, as Dudley Andrew puts it, 2read rather than consumed,3 that is, viewed meditatively, reflected upon, and discussed (2000, 24). And indeed, in this world in which filmmaking has become commonplacewhere, as Egoyan has said, 2what used to be a rarified activity is now available to anyone with a digital camera and a computer3 (2001b, 18) he intends through much of his work to recall an earlier image culture in which artists had an ability to produce something that gained its power precisely through its rarity.

Empowerment Through Dancing?

Author : Patricia A. Hernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Empowerment Through Dancing? written by Patricia A. Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment

Author : S. Holland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230290434
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment written by S. Holland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes.

Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color

Author : Cristina Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color written by Cristina Khan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the experiences of the "Divine Dancers[1]," a Black and Puerto Rican collective of 40 women from across the United States who convene 10 to 12 times a year to plan, manage, and perform in exotic dance shows for other women. I draw on 23 months of ethnographic observations and 40 in-depth interviews with members of this collective to explore how Divine Dancers' performance spaces, which are absent of the power dynamics of cis men and White women, enable Black and Latina women to exercise agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. My work speaks to the sociological literatures of body and embodiment (Grosz 1994, Witz 2000, Crossley 2001, Shilling 2007), race and ethnicity (Omi & Winant 1994, Puri 2016, Vidal-Ortiz 2004), and gender and sexuality (Collins 2005, Rodríguez 2014) as a theoretical intervention that starts from the embodied standpoint (Moraga 1983, Moya 1997) of Black and Latina exotic dancers (Brooks 2010, 2012). I advance an embodied approach (Khan, 2019) to racialization that reveals the intersection of the body (including such features as body size, girth, weight) and other embodied qualities (such as emotional expressions and performance) as markers of racialization (Hernandez 2009) that ultimately challenges the dominance of the U.S. Black/White racial binary (Omi & Winant 1994, Perea 1997). I center the body to show how racialized constructs relative to Blackness and Puerto Rican-ness (Landale & Oropesa 2002) become marshaled for racialized erotic capital (Brooks 2012) within the context of Divine Dancer shows, and exotic dance more broadly. [1] Divine Dancers is a pseudonym for the actual name of the collective.

The Kaleidoscope of Gender

Author : Catherine G. Valentine
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506389112
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Kaleidoscope of Gender written by Catherine G. Valentine and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and its three themes—prisms, patterns, and possibilities—unify topic areas throughout the book. By focusing on the prisms through which gender is shaped, the patterns which gender takes, and the possibilities for social change, the reader gains a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others, both locally and globally. Editors Catherine Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner and the work of Joan Spade focus on the paradigms and approaches to gender studies that are constantly changing and evolving. The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.

Flesh for Fantasy

Author : Danielle Egan
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560257219
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Flesh for Fantasy written by Danielle Egan and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a recent burst of feature films, documentaries, and books on strippers, the business of exotic dancing is hotter than ever. Over the last decade there has been a steadily expanding interest in exotic dance, from its role as an "art form" to its benefits as a means of exercise. While the breadth of discussion generated on this topic has expanded, the fundamental debate remains the same: are female strippers empowering themselves or allowing themselves to be exploited? With her follow-up to Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, M. Lisa Johnson moves beyond the old debates and gives the reader a glimpse of what exotic dancing is like through the eyes of the stripper. The essays in Flesh for Fantasy cover everything from workplace policies and conditions, legal restrictions, customer behavior, and the struggle to overcome the stereotypes associated with the profession.

Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture

Author : Catherine M. Roach
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 0857850946
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture written by Catherine M. Roach and published by Berg. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.

Styling Masculinity

Author : Kristen Barber
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572657
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Styling Masculinity written by Kristen Barber and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men’s beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men’s salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos. Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.