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Manufacturing the gentleman's girl: Beauty, class, and the adult entertainment club

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Date Issued:
1991
Summary:
In its formulation of the classy strip club, the adult entertainment industry incorporates a discursive relationship between class imagery, especially as the industry uses this to address consumers, and aesthetics, particularly hierarchical representations of woman's beauty. For the author (a former stripper at the adult entertainment club Pure Platinum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida), this relationship shores up the industry's structure, enabling its prolific connections to and with other cultural forms and practices, popular as well as marginal. Assuming adult entertainment occupies merely a cultural margin hinders insight into these important power relations. Grasping them and their changeability requires recognition that the industry shares material and ideological ties with forms more mainstream, such as Miss USA, Barbie, and Snow White.
Title: Manufacturing the gentleman's girl: Beauty, class, and the adult entertainment club.
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Name(s): Kratz, Shannon Lee.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Steinman, Clay, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1991
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 135 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: In its formulation of the classy strip club, the adult entertainment industry incorporates a discursive relationship between class imagery, especially as the industry uses this to address consumers, and aesthetics, particularly hierarchical representations of woman's beauty. For the author (a former stripper at the adult entertainment club Pure Platinum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida), this relationship shores up the industry's structure, enabling its prolific connections to and with other cultural forms and practices, popular as well as marginal. Assuming adult entertainment occupies merely a cultural margin hinders insight into these important power relations. Grasping them and their changeability requires recognition that the industry shares material and ideological ties with forms more mainstream, such as Miss USA, Barbie, and Snow White.
Identifier: 14773 (digitool), FADT14773 (IID), fau:12701 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.
Subject(s): Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Stripteasers.
Dance--Social aspects.
Women entertainers.
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