Strip Club

Author : Kim Price-Glynn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814767818

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Strip Club by Kim Price-Glynn Pdf

In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers’ stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting. Strip Club reveals the intimate working lives of not just the women up on stage, but also the patrons and other workers who make the place run: the owner‒manager, bartenders, dejays, doormen, bouncers, housemoms, and cocktail waitresses. Price‒Glynn spent fourteen months at The Lion’s Den working as a cocktail waitress, and her uncommonly deep access reveals a conflict‒ridden workplace, similar to any other workplace, one where gender inequalities are reproduced through the everyday interactions of customers and workers. Taking a novel approach to this controversial and often misunderstood industry, Price‒Glynn draws a fascinating portrait of life and work inside the strip club.

Author : Mark Sewell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781538190982

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Investigating America’s Most Notorious Strip Club by Mark Sewell Pdf

Retired FBI Special Agent Mark Sewell was a rookie in 1997 when he was assigned to investigate mafia associate Steve Kaplan and his enormously successful Atlanta strip club; the largest single money maker for the Gambino Crime Family. Accompanied by a small team of investigators, the hand-picked unit followed a money trail, that wound up implicating a Gambino Captain, police officers, strippers, and many of the most recognized professional athletes in America. The subsequent 2001 trial was covered nationally by the leading media outlets, from television newscasts to late night talk shows and nationally published magazines pushing new, sensational headlines daily. Sewell was at the center of the storm that dominated media headlines in the summer of 2001 and provides a never-before seen inside view of the FBI’s most successful financial win against an organized crime family in the agency’s history.

Author : Bianca Stone
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781941040850

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The Mobius Strip Club of Grief by Bianca Stone Pdf

"Bianca Stone is a brilliant transcriber of her generation's emerging pathology and sensibility." —John Ashbery A Paris Review Staff Pick and Most Anticipated Book of 2018 at NYLON, Bustle, Autostraddle, and more. The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay—dearly, with both money and conscience—to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: “$20 for five minutes. I’ll hold your hand in my own,” one ghost says. “I’ll tell you you were good to me.” Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a feminist Limbo where women run the show and create a space to navigate the difficulties endured in life. With a nod to her grandmother Ruth Stone’s poem “The Mobius Strip of Grief,” Stone creates a labyrinthine underworld as a way to confront and investigate complicated family relationships in the hopes of breaking the never-ending cycle of grief.

Author : Brent Kenton Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
ISBN : 0970344120

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Stripped by Brent Kenton Jordan Pdf

Author : Pulse Guides,Patrick Green
Publisher : ASDavis Media Group
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Hotels
ISBN : 9780975902288

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Night+Day Las Vegas by Pulse Guides,Patrick Green Pdf

This sleek guide emphasizes the details that busy and discerning travelers need to know: the very best venues and activities, the prime time to be in every spot, and packed with insider tips. Structured around styles (such as hot & cool, hip, classic) that make up Las Vegas' unique character, the guide's easy to use format gives travelers a selection based on the city's array of personalities, not geography or price.

Author : Jason Keeler
Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1478158239

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The Strip Club Dating Survival Guide by Jason Keeler Pdf

The Strip Club Dating Survival Guide is an inside look at America's strip joints, and the beautiful women that take it all off a few dollars at a time. Written by a club insider to help the average guy turn his stripper girlfriend fantasy into a reality. Learn all about strip clubs, the lives of exotic dancers and what will set you apart from the other customers. Find out how dancers think, act, what they want and the ways anyone can influence strippers to become vulnerable to romance. Learn how to handle money, impress the girls and keep your bank balance intact. Find out how, when and where to pursue a stripper, when to change targets, and what to look for, when you're getting it right or doing it wrong. Learn when to be persistent, and when to abandon the chase. If you want a woman who loves to dance, makes all your friends jealous, and brings other girls home to play with you, then The Strip Club Dating Survival Guide can show you the way.

Author : Cid V Brunet
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551528595

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This Is My Real Name by Cid V Brunet Pdf

This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years (using the name Michelle) working as a dancer at strip clubs. From her very first lapdance in a small-town bar to working at high-end clubs, Michelle learns she must follow the unspoken rules that will allow her to succeed in the competitive industry. Along the way, she and her coworkers encounter compelling clients and unreasonable bosses and navigate their own relationships to drugs and alcohol. Michelle and her friends rely on each other’s camaraderie and strength in an industry that can be both toxic and deeply rewarding. Deeply personal, This Is My Real Name demystifies stripping as a career with great respect and candor, while at the same time exploring the complex, sex-positive reationships (queer and otherwise) that make it meaningful. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Author : Bernadette Barton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479892976

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Stripped by Bernadette Barton Pdf

What kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lap dancing, table dancing, topless only, and peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers. Originally published in 2006, the product of years of first-hand research in strip clubs around the country, Stripped is a classic portrait of what it’s like for those who choose to strip as a profession. Barton explores why women begin stripping, the initial excitement and financial rewards of the work, the dangers of the life—namely, drugs and prostitution—and, inevitably, the difficulties in staying in the business over time, especially for their relationships, sexuality and self-esteem. In this completely revised and updated edition, Barton returns to the strip clubs she originally studied to observe the major changes in the industry that have occurred over the last decade. She examines how “raunch culture” affects exotic dancers’ treatment by their clientele, who are now accustomed to seeing nudity and sexualized performance in accessible, R and X -rated media from a variety of outlets, particularly the Internet. Barton explores how new media has transformed exotic dancing, allowing dancers to build an online brand, but also introducing possibilities for customers to take unauthorized nude photos and videos of the entertainers.. And finally, Barton speaks to new dancers as well as dancers she interviewed in the previous edition, examining how the toll of stripping still impacts the lives of exotic dancers in a changing industry. Incorporating new scholarship, new observations, and increased awareness of emerging media technology, Barton brings a fresh and important perspective on the challenges that women face working in the still-thriving world of exotic dancing.

Author : Katherine Liepe-Levinson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Striptease
ISBN : 0415173817

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Strip Show by Katherine Liepe-Levinson Pdf

Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease in North America: this is the first full length theoretically informed study of striptease.

Author : Gilbert Herdt,Cymene Howe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135978907

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21st Century Sexualities by Gilbert Herdt,Cymene Howe Pdf

Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality. Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological material from the major domains of sexual education, sexual health, sexual rights, and globalization, this book includes a superb editorial overview that opens up the field for students and teachers alike. This anthology will be an invaluable supplement to all levels of students and researchers interested in sexuality across a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies and politics.

Author : Candy and Fiona
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544165188

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51 Tips for Strippers by Candy and Fiona Pdf

Want to be a better stripper or just act like one? Then this is the book for you! Candy and Fiona are well-seasoned strippers, and they use their unbeatable amount of know-how, street smarts, and years upon years of experience to help thousands of lost and misguided souls with all manner of problems and dilemmas, from preschool fights to military coups. "51 Tips for Strippers" is a perfect resource tool for strippers, grandmothers, favorite news' anchors, and/or Coast Guard veteran. In this book, Candy and Fiona have tackled the most common mistakes made by strippers, and explain how you can improve your strip-club experience by 230%. This all-inclusive book can also be used at the office, your local voting station, hospital, or on-the-go. You will be amazed at the results! Get your tips of trade right here and start making buckets of ca$h.

Author : John Marsh
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781583674765

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In Walt We Trust by John Marsh Pdf

Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the discomfort and unease you experience the day or two before you get really sick. Our life is a scratchy throat. John Marsh offers an unlikely remedy for this widespread malaise: the poetry of Walt Whitman. Mired in personal and political depression, Marsh turned to Whitman—and it saved his life. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself is a book about how Walt Whitman can save America’s life, too. Marsh identifies four sources for our contemporary malaise (death, money, sex, democracy) and then looks to a particular Whitman poem for relief from it. He makes plain what, exactly, Whitman wrote and what he believed by showing how they emerged from Whitman’s life and times, and by recreating the places and incidents (crossing Brooklyn ferry, visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals) that inspired Whitman to write the poems. Whitman, Marsh argues, can show us how to die, how to accept and even celebrate our (relatively speaking) imminent death. Just as important, though, he can show us how to live: how to have better sex, what to do about money, and, best of all, how to survive our fetid democracy without coming away stinking ourselves. The result is a mix of biography, literary criticism, manifesto, and a kind of self-help you’re unlikely to encounter anywhere else.

Author : Teela Sanders,Kate Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317755326

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Flexible Workers by Teela Sanders,Kate Hardy Pdf

Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality. This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy moves away from the more traditional focus on the relations between dancers and customers, to a focus on regulation and the working conditions experienced by those working in stripping work. Drawing on interviews, survey data and participant observation with dancers, managers, regulators and other staff, Sanders and Hardy present the first ever nationwide study of the stripping industry and the working lives of those within it. The book explores the reasons for the expansion of the industry in the United Kingdom and the experiences, opinions and perspectives of those that produce and shape it. Placing dancers' voices centre stage, it examines the wider political economy which shapes dancers' engagement in employment in the stripping industry, pointing towards the wider conditions of the labour market and growing privatisation of Higher Education as explanatory factors for its labour supply. In suggesting a new feminist politics of stripping, dancers voice their own political awareness of erotic dance and an intersectional analysis of solidarity with workers in the stripping industry is foregrounded. Presenting a 360 degree view of the industry, this ground-breaking study presents systematic evidence for the first time on this area of social life which has become central as a strategy of survival, class mobility and urban accumulation. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the fields of criminology, sociology, geography, labour studies and gender studies, as well as regulators, activists and even dancers themselves.

Author : Michael S. Kimmel,Amy B. Aronson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576077757

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Men & Masculinities [2 volumes] by Michael S. Kimmel,Amy B. Aronson Pdf

The first encyclopedia to analyze, summarize, and explain the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood. The process of "making masculinity visible" has been going on for over two decades and has produced a prodigious and interesting body of work. But until now the subject has had no authoritative reference source. Men & Masculinities, a pioneering two-volume work, corrects the oversight by summarizing the latest historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the subject. It also looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective. The contributors are experts in their specialties and their work is directed, organized, and coedited by one of the premier scholars in the field, Michael Kimmel. The coverage brings together for the first time considerable knowledge of men and manhood, focusing on such areas as sexual violence, intimacy, pornography, homophobia, sports, profeminist men, rituals, sexism, and many other important subjects. Clearly, this unique reference is a valuable guide to students, teachers, writers, policymakers, journalists, and others who seek a fuller understanding of gender in the United States.

Author : DeVon Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781982101299

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The Truth About Men by DeVon Franklin Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The Wait and “spiritual teacher for our times” (Oprah Winfrey) frankly and openly explores why men behave the way they do and what everyone—men and women alike—need to know about it. We hear it all the time. Men cheat. Men love power. Men love sex. Men are greedy. Men are dogs. But is this really the truth about men? In this groundbreaking book, DeVon Franklin dishes the real truth by making the compelling case that men aren’t dogs but all men share the same struggle. He provides the manual for how men can change, both on a personal and a societal level by providing practical solutions for helping men learn how to resist temptation, how to practice self-control, and how to love. But The Truth About Men isn’t just for men. DeVon tells female readers everything they need to know about men. He offers women a real-time understanding of how men’s struggles affect them, insights that can help them navigate their relationships with men and information on how to heal from the damage that some misbehaving men may have inflicted. This book is a raw, informative, and accessible look at an issue that threatens to tear our society apart yet it offers a positive way forward for men and women alike.