TY - BOOK AU - Roach, Catherine M. AB - At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper. The author, at first troubled and yet fascinated by her friend's decision, follows Marie's journey into the world of stripping as an observer and analyst. She finds that this world raises complex questions about gender, sexuality, fantasy, feminism, and even spirituality. Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, the book broadens into a provocative and accessible examination of the current popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, thongs gone mainstream, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked truth of a lucrative industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.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.Catherine M. Roach is Associate Professor of New College, and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies and Women's Studies, at The University of Alabama, USA. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998 and is also the author of Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2003). DO - 10.26530/OAPEN_390772 ID - OAPEN ID: 390772 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 605535831 ID - OAPEN ID: 808382319 KW - cultural studies KW - sociology KW - culturele studies KW - sociologie KW - Human sexuality KW - Prostitution KW - Sex-positive movement KW - Strip club KW - Stripper KW - Striptease L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b03bfcfe-d6d9-4144-bde0-8e68557f744d/390772.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34633 PB - Berg Publishers PP - Oxford PY - 2007 SN - 9781847883476 TI - Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culturenull ER -