G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire

Name: G-Strings and Sympathy Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
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ISBN: 9780822329725

ISBN-10: 0822329727

ISBN-13: 9780822329725

Edition: 2002

Authors: Katherine Frank

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Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton - a southeastern American city renowned for its strip clubs - anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating heterosexual, male strip club 'regulars'.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.70" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Katherine Frank's most recent biography, "A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon", earned a rave front-page review in the "New York Times Book Review". Frank is also the author of "A Voyager Out", a life of Mary Kingsley, & "A Chainless Soul", a life of Emily Bronte, which was hailed by New York Daily News. Her work on "Indira" involved six years of extensive travel & research.



Acknowledgments


Preface: Skin Brings Men






Observing the Observers: Methods and Themes



Laurelton and Its Strip Clubs: The Historical, Physical, and Social Terrain



Interlude: Strawberries (fiction)



Just Trying to Relax: Masculinity, Touristic Practice, and the Idiosyncrasies of Power



The Pursuit of the Fantasy Penis: Bodies, Desires, and Ambiguities



Interlude: Fakes (fiction)



"I'm Not Like the Other Guys": Claims to Authentic Experience



Hustlers, Pros, and the Girl Next Door: Social Class, Race, and the Consumption of the Authentic Female Body



Interlude: The Management of Hunger (fiction)



The Crowded Bedroom: Marriage, Monogamy, and Fantasy



Disciplining Erotic Practice


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index