Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show by Rachel Shteir

By Rachel Shteir

Striptease recreates the flamable mix of license, independence, and sexual interest that allowed strippers to thrive for almost a century. Rachel Shteir brings to lifestyles striptease's Golden Age, the years among the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, whilst strippers played round the kingdom, in burlesque theatres, nightclubs, vaudeville homes, carnivals, festivals, or even in wonderful palaces at the nice White approach. Taking us backstage, Shteir introduces us to a various solid of characters that collided at the burlesque level, from tight-laced political reformers and flamboyant impresarios, to pull queens, shimmy women, cootch dancers, tit serenaders, or even women round the corner, lured into the occupation through big-city aspirations. in the course of the e-book, readers will locate crucial profiles of famed performers, together with Gypsy Rose Lee, "the Literary Stripper"; Lili St. Cyr, the Fifties mistress of unique striptease; and Blaze Starr, the "human warmth wave," who actually set the degree on fire.
Striptease is an insightful and pleasing portrait of an paintings shape straight away reviled and embraced via the yank public. mixing cautious examine and bright narration, Rachel Shteir captures striptease's mix of sham and seduction whereas illuminating its unusually chronic carry at the American imagination.

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