1. Introduction: Stripping, Sex, and Starbucks
2. Live Nude Girls: Notes on Being a Naked Participant-Observer
3. Dancing Sexy: Difference and Desire in Two Connecticut Clubs
4. Introducing McStripping: Corporeality, Corporations, and the
Advent of the Lap Dance in the United Kingdom
5. Dancing in the Combat Zone: Exotic Dance, Nostalgia, and Urban
Renewal
6.Taking Stock: Striptease, Stratification, and the NASDAQ
7. Pasties and Pixels: Striptease and the Mainstream
Works Cited
Index
Jessica Berson teaches Dance Studies at Yale University, and has been a member of Dance and Drama faculties at Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and University of Exeter (UK). She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from University if Wisconsin-Madison and is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. She lives in Boston with her husband and two sons.
"The Naked Result is a knockout! Jessica Berson really puts out;
excellent scholarship, superbly crafted words of body-based wisdom,
and revealing information about today's exotic dance industries. I
give this important and timely book my highest rating-two tassels
way up!"--Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., Former stripper, artist, activist,
and author of Hardcore From the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and
Politics of Sex in Performance
"Berson writes as a dance scholar first and former exotic dancer
second, intervening in tired debates about strippers' agency and
expression. Providing detailed descriptions of the strippers'
movement vocabularies, their places of employment, and their
complex negotiations with each other, their clients, and club
management, she establishes exotic dance as a commercial enterprise
as well as a specific dance technique and style."--Kirsten Pullen,
author of
Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society and Like a Natural
Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood
"The author addresses rarely-remarked but important topics in
striptease, and elevates it from something mistaken for a novelty
to its true relevancy in understanding human communication through
movement."--Jo Weldon, Founder and Director, New York School of
Burlesque and author of The Burlesque Handbook
"Highly recommended."--Choice
"The Naked Result, a book long in the making, is the single most
generous take on striptease I have encountered ... [Berson] finds
room for self-definition in the 'sometimes uncomfortable and
discomforting hyrbrid of theatrical performance, popular dance, and
sex work' that is striptease."-- Women's Review of Books
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