Dancing for Dollars And Paying for Love
The Relationships Between Exotic Dancers And Their Regulars
Egan, R. Danielle
Egan, Danielle
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BOOK SUMMARY
A sociological look at exotic dancers and their customers.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This book takes an in-depth look at the relationships exotic dancers have with their regular customers, and explores the limits of using feminist theory to discuss sex work. Incorporating interviews, personal accounts, and field notes, Egan sheds light on the feminist debates on sex work and women's power. She focuses in on the dynamics of desire and fantasy in exotic dance clubs to illustrate the complexity of gendered relations in everyday life. This is an accessible, revealing, and new look at a perennially intriguing and divisive subject--ideal teaching material for undergraduate courses in a variety of fields.
AUTHOR BIO
R. Danielle Egan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. She is the co-editor with Katherine Frank and Merri, L. Johnson of the anthology Flesh for Fantasy: The Production and Consumption of Exotic Dance. Egan has published work in Critical Sociology, Body and Society, Deviant Behavior and The Journal of Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture. In addition to her work on exotic dance, she has written on post 9/11 rhetoric, pedagogy, and popular culture.
BOOK REVIEWS
From the vantage point of both scholar and erotic dancer, Danielle Egan takes us inside the world of the erotic dance club. At once a consumer space, a sex site, a work environment, and an emotional and psychoanalytic goldmine, Egan brings this fascinating environment to lifeand our understanding of erotic labor to a whole new level.--Juliet Schor, Department of Sociology, Boston College, and author of The Overspent American
Wielding a brave new path through the contentious fields of misinformation and polemical debate about exotic dance specifically, and sex work more generally, Egan weaves a sophisticated but accessible theoretical and ethnographic tapestry. I highly recommend Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love to scholars, students, and readers who are hungry for an informative and compelling read.--Kathryn Hausbeck, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada
Danielle Egan hooks the reader through a strikingly intimate narrative constructed from her scholarship, her dancer experience and from the voices of her co-dancers and their regulars. A blue-print for the doing of sociology for teachers and students alike ... groundbreaking in studies of sexuality."--Gail Hawkes, University of New England, Australia.--Gail Hawkes, University of New England, Australia
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403970459
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403970459
Copyright: 2006
Dewey Decimal: 305.3
Library of Congress: 2005045945
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 174
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