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Risqué Business : Breastaurants in American Culture.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matejowsky, Ty.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role in the work environment--United States.
- Sex role in the work environment.
- Sexual division of labor--United States.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Women in the hospitality industry--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Women in the hospitality industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Risqué Business serves up the breastaurant industry, where food service, sex appeal, identity, and gender politics mix.Risqué Business explores the rise and ongoing cultural reckoning of "breastaurants": sports bar-style restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, which have long relied on the sexualized presentation of female servers to attract a.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Breastaurant Reflections
- 2. Breastaurant-Related Matters
- 3. Breastaurant Events
- 4. Talk Flirty to Me
- 5. Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Debates
- 6. Popular Culture Depictions and Breastaurant-Adjacent Undertakings
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9573-3
- OCLC:
- 1549522859
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