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Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Susan Dewey
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Description for Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Paperback. Examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, this title 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. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSJ1; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520266919
SKU
V9780520266919
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About Susan Dewey
Susan Dewey is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and adjunct in International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India and Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India.
Reviews for Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
"Dewey contributes to a growing wave of qualitative research on the sex industry." Choice "Fresh... As keen as it is thorough... Neon Wasteland is a provocative, highly readable analysis."
Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural Geography
Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural Geography