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Manufacturing the gentleman's girl: Beauty, class, and the adult entertainment club
- 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 |
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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. |
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Subject(s): |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) Stripteasers. Dance--Social aspects. Women entertainers. |
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Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14773 | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |