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Title:
Neon wasteland : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town
Author:
Dewey, Susan.
ISBN:
9780520948310
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 258 pages)
Abstract:
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 th.
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