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10%OFFKatherine Frank - G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire - 9780822329725 - V9780822329725
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G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire

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Description for G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire Paperback.
Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the exotic dancers and their customers, in G-Strings and Sympathy Frank asks what—if not sex or even touching—the repeat customers were purchasing from the clubs and from the dancers. She finds that the clubs provide an intermediate space—not work, not home—where men can enjoyably experience their bodies and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822329725
SKU
V9780822329725
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-14

About Katherine Frank
Katherine Frank is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the College of the Atlantic.

Reviews for G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
“G-Strings and Sympathy effortlessly merges the personal with the polemical, the scholarly with the serendipitous, and the earthy with the esoteric. Informed, intelligent, yet always accessible, Katherine Frank’s writing sheds a piercing beam of light on the shadowy realm of exotic dance.”—Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America “I am not aware of any comparable ... Read more

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