Neon Wasteland
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Author_Susan Dewey
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cultural studies
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exotic dancers
exotic dancing
femininity
feminism
feminized labor
fidelity
gender
gender studies
gws
motherhood
needs
new york
nonfiction
performance
poverty
resilience
rust belt
self esteem
sex work
sex workers
sexual objectification
sexuality
social commentary
social science
social systems
strippers
topless dancers
vulnerability
women
womens issues
womens studies
womens work
Product details
- ISBN 9780520266919
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, "Neon Wasteland" shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.
Susan Dewey is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and adjunct in International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India and Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India.
