Burlesque West : Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver / Becki Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Becki, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burlesque (Theater)--British Columbia--Vancouver--History.

Burlesque (Theater).

Stripteasers--British Columbia--Vancouver--History.

Stripteasers.

Showgirls--British Columbia--Vancouver--History.

Showgirls.

Nightlife--British Columbia--Vancouver--History.

Nightlife.

Vancouver (B.C.)--History.

Vancouver (B.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West, the first critical history of the city's notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver - which provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, Burlesque West is an ambitious and engaging social history that looks at the convergence of the personal and the political in a phenomenon that combines sex, art and entertainment, and commerce."--Jacket

Contents:

Preface : beginnings, backlash, and brazenness

1. Uncloaking the striptease past

2. 'I ain't Rebecca, and this ain't Sunnybrook Farm' : men behind the marquee

3. 'We were like snowflakes

no two were alike' : dancers and their gimmicks

4. 'Peelers sell beer, and the money was huge' : the shifting conditions of selling fantasy

5. 'Everyone wanted to date a dancer, nobody wanted to marry one' : occupational hazards in the industry

6. 'You started to feel like a dinosaur' : exiting and aging in the business.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4426-9722-9

1-4426-9784-9

OCLC:

759157356