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Neon wasteland : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town / Susan Dewey.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dewey, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Femininity--Case studies.
- Femininity.
- Self-perception in women--Northeastern States--Case studies.
- Self-perception in women.
- Sex industry--Social aspects--Northeastern States--Case studies.
- Sex industry.
- Women dancers--Northeastern States--Case studies.
- Women dancers.
- Women--Family relationships--Northeastern States--Case studies.
- Women.
- Women--Northeastern States--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Northeastern States--Economic conditions.
- Northeastern States.
- Northeastern States--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body
- 3. Everyday Survival Strategies
- 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession
- 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love
- 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger
- 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613277565
- 9781283277563
- 1283277565
- 9780520948310
- 0520948319
- OCLC:
- 700701932
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