Striptease : the untold history of the girlie show / Rachel Shteir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shteir, Rachel, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Striptease--United States--History--20th century.

Striptease.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

This first complete history of a century of striptease is filled with rare photographs and period illustrations.

Contents:

"A startled fawn upon the stage"

Legs

"Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts

From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque

After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on Broadway

The first strippers and teasers

Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease

A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of

The burlesque soul of striptease

"Minskyville"

"I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation

"Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York

Gypsy

From literary strippers to queens of burlesque

"Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair

Striptease during wartime

The private lives of strippers

Stripty-second streets

The seamy sides of striptease

Striptease confidential

You've gotta get a gimmick

Topless dancing

1969: who killed striptease?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-417) and index.

ISBN:

0195127501

OCLC:

55730053