Erotic Resistance : The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Gigi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Gay liberation movement--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Gay liberation movement.

Lesbian activists--Civil rights--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Lesbian activists.

Sex industry--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Sex industry.

Sex workers--Civil rights--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Sex workers.

Women entertainers--Civil rights--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Women entertainers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans women who were instrumental in the city's labor history, as well as its LGBT and sex workers' rights movements. In the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in the city for the first time in the US, though cross-dressing continued to be criminalized. In the 1990s, stripper-artist-activists led the first successful class action lawsuits and efforts to unionize. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa uses visual and performance analysis, historiography, and ethnographic research, including participant observation as both performer and spectator and interviews with legendary burlesquers and strippers, to share this remarkable story.

Contents:

Cover

Tittle Page

Copyright

Dedication

Content

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Field Notes, May 5, 2016, "The Audition Marathon on Cinco de Mayo," North Beach, San Francisco

Introduction

1. Sensual Knowledge Production: A Feminist Porn Archive and Queer Herstoriography

2. Erotic Altruism: Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies

Interlude: Feminist Art Praxis and Autotheory

3. Erotic Resistance: The 1990s Renaissance of Strip Club Activism

4. "Stripper-Face" and Performative Heterosexuality

Conclusion

Postlude: Final Field Notes, June 10, 2022, "Place-Based Writing," San Francisco Neighborhoods

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520398962

0520398963

OCLC:

1396080622