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The Naked Result by Jessica Berson, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Jessica Berson

Current price: $32.95
The Naked Result by Jessica Berson, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Naked Result by Jessica Berson, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Naked Result by Jessica Berson, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Jessica Berson

Current price: $32.95
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Size: 30 x 236 x 568

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We have grown accustomed to corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education - but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of striptease, tracing its path from the unrulyunderground to brightly lit, branded "gentlemen's clubs." Drawing on her own experience as an exotic dancer, Jessica Berson examines the ways that striptease embodies conflicting notions of race, class, and female sexuality, and how the exotic dance industry deploys these differences to codify andcommodify our erotic imagination. Chain clubs, fitness programs, and music videos are moving exotic dance into the mainstream, stripping its historical potential to embody and express subversive desires - erotic and otherwise - and generate resistant modes of female erotic subjectivity. Through case studies including Boston's Combat Zone in the 1970s-80s, the development of lap dancing in London in the 1990s, and the triumph of corporate striptease in post-Giuliani New York City in the last decade, The Naked Result reveals an industry that increasingly eradicates individuality andagency in order to increase profits. Ultimately, The Naked Result argues that corporatization has cheerfully smothered the diversity of desire and expression for both dancers and customers, repackaging the most mysterious human emotions into easily branded experiences no more personal or powerfulthan those to be found in any themed restaurant or coffee mega-chain. | The Naked Result by Jessica Berson, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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