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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Talks about striptease's Golden Age, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theaters, nightclubs, vaudeville houses, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the Great White Way. This book also features profiles of famed performers.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

1-280-56417-2

0-19-802935-7

1-4294-2038-3

OCLC:

466427935