Frank G-Strings and Sympathy

Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8399-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

An ethnography of the customers of strip clubs where the author performed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Preface: Skin Brings Men xiii

Part One

Chapter 1 Observing the Observers: Methods and Themes 1

Chapter 2 Laurelton and Its Strip Clubs: The Historical, Physical, and Social Terrain 39

Part Two

Interlude: Strawberries (fiction) 79

Chapter 3 Just Trying to Relax: Masculinity, Touristic Practice, and the Idiosyncrasies of Power 85

Chapter 4 The Pursuit of the Fantasy Penis: Bodies, Desires, and Ambiguities 121

Part Three

Interlude: Fakes (fiction) 159

Chapter 5 "I'm Not Like the Other Guys": Claims to Authentic Experience 173

Chapter 6 Hustlers, Pros, and the Girl Next Door: Social Class, Race, and the Consumption of the Authentic Female Body 203

Part Four

Interlude: The Management of Hunger (fiction) 231

Chapter 7 The Crowded Bedroom: Marriage, Monogamy, and Fantasy 241

Chapter 8 Disciplining Erotic Practice 273

Appendix 281

Notes 285

Bibliography 311

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

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