Author: Jacki Willson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857713159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese and Catherine D'Lish, the explosive revival of striptease, burlesque and overt female sexual performance has proved no less alluring to a new generation of women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70's performance artists such as Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneeman. Eloquent on 'prettiness' and power, desire and 'knowingness', money, sex and class, and with an extensive knowledge of burlesque's rich tradition, Willson raises long overdue questions about women's erotic expression within a 'postfeminist' condition. The 'new burlesque' demands above all a response - this fresh, brazen, provocative book at last provides it.
The Happy Stripper
Author: Jacki Willson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736426
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese and Catherine D'Lish, the explosive revival of striptease, burlesque and overt female sexual performance has proved no less alluring to a new generation of women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70's performance artists such as Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneeman. Eloquent on 'prettiness' and power, desire and 'knowingness', money, sex and class, and with an extensive knowledge of burlesque's rich tradition, Willson raises long overdue questions about women's erotic expression within a 'postfeminist' condition. The 'new burlesque' demands above all a response - this fresh, brazen, provocative book at last provides it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736426
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese and Catherine D'Lish, the explosive revival of striptease, burlesque and overt female sexual performance has proved no less alluring to a new generation of women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70's performance artists such as Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneeman. Eloquent on 'prettiness' and power, desire and 'knowingness', money, sex and class, and with an extensive knowledge of burlesque's rich tradition, Willson raises long overdue questions about women's erotic expression within a 'postfeminist' condition. The 'new burlesque' demands above all a response - this fresh, brazen, provocative book at last provides it.
Billionaire's Stripper
Author: Posey Parks
Publisher: Posey Parks Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
ππ§π ππ’π«ππ‘πππ² πππ§ππ ππ«π¨π¦ ππ‘π ππππ π¬ππ«π’π©π©ππ« ππ§π π§π¨π° π¬π‘πβπ¬ π¦π² πππ¦π©ππππ’π¨π§. The smoking hot dancer is on my radar. Every night Iβll frequent the popular gentlemen's club until sheβs mine. She works full time not to pay for her college classes but to pay her fatherβs medical bills. I offer to assist financially and she shoots me down. Not only is she beautiful but stubborn as all hell. Lydia has a few dangerous stalkers sheβs not aware exist. Iβd happily end them. No one messes with whatβs mine. Lydia is holding true to remaining a virgin until she is married. I have no problem waiting until she is my wife. Then Iβll tame those scrumptious curves bringing the beautiful Lydia to her knees.
Publisher: Posey Parks Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
ππ§π ππ’π«ππ‘πππ² πππ§ππ ππ«π¨π¦ ππ‘π ππππ π¬ππ«π’π©π©ππ« ππ§π π§π¨π° π¬π‘πβπ¬ π¦π² πππ¦π©ππππ’π¨π§. The smoking hot dancer is on my radar. Every night Iβll frequent the popular gentlemen's club until sheβs mine. She works full time not to pay for her college classes but to pay her fatherβs medical bills. I offer to assist financially and she shoots me down. Not only is she beautiful but stubborn as all hell. Lydia has a few dangerous stalkers sheβs not aware exist. Iβd happily end them. No one messes with whatβs mine. Lydia is holding true to remaining a virgin until she is married. I have no problem waiting until she is my wife. Then Iβll tame those scrumptious curves bringing the beautiful Lydia to her knees.
Fan Letters to a Stripper
Author: Bob Brill
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764333293
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the 1940s and 1950s, strip artist Patti Waggin was billed as The Educated Torso, The Sex Oomph Girl, and the Fresh Faced Girl Next Door. Amazingly athletic, performing routines few others could manage, Patti was a Headliner. She was also one of the friendliest performers on the burlesque stage, loved by her peers and fans alike. In this unique book, readers come to know Patti Waggin through the letters of her fans. She was committed to recognizing and writing back to her ardent admirers because she understood their need for her during the difficult years of the Second World War. The letters and an engaging text reveal her marriage in the 1950s to baseball player Don Rudolph. Over 280 photos of Patti on stage and at home, along with paper ephemera associated with her career, accompany the heartfelt letters included in the text. For anyone interested in burlesque, this book provides a unique look at one of its stars.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764333293
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the 1940s and 1950s, strip artist Patti Waggin was billed as The Educated Torso, The Sex Oomph Girl, and the Fresh Faced Girl Next Door. Amazingly athletic, performing routines few others could manage, Patti was a Headliner. She was also one of the friendliest performers on the burlesque stage, loved by her peers and fans alike. In this unique book, readers come to know Patti Waggin through the letters of her fans. She was committed to recognizing and writing back to her ardent admirers because she understood their need for her during the difficult years of the Second World War. The letters and an engaging text reveal her marriage in the 1950s to baseball player Don Rudolph. Over 280 photos of Patti on stage and at home, along with paper ephemera associated with her career, accompany the heartfelt letters included in the text. For anyone interested in burlesque, this book provides a unique look at one of its stars.
Ivy League Stripper
Author: Heidi Mattson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611454883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Heidi Mattson successfully united sex and scholarship to realize a '90s version of the American Dream by becoming a smart, sassy, self-confident stripper while attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Intelligent and ambitious, she grew up
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611454883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Heidi Mattson successfully united sex and scholarship to realize a '90s version of the American Dream by becoming a smart, sassy, self-confident stripper while attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Intelligent and ambitious, she grew up
Candy Girl
Author: Diablo Cody
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101216794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TVβs The Late Show to be the pick of βDaveβs Book Club 2006,β Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely sourceβ amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesnβt take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill. This is Diabloβs captivating fish-out-of-water story of her yearlong walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemenβs clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writerβs keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now husband.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101216794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TVβs The Late Show to be the pick of βDaveβs Book Club 2006,β Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely sourceβ amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesnβt take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill. This is Diabloβs captivating fish-out-of-water story of her yearlong walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemenβs clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writerβs keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now husband.
The Happy Stripper
Author: Jacki Willson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857713159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese and Catherine D'Lish, the explosive revival of striptease, burlesque and overt female sexual performance has proved no less alluring to a new generation of women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70's performance artists such as Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneeman. Eloquent on 'prettiness' and power, desire and 'knowingness', money, sex and class, and with an extensive knowledge of burlesque's rich tradition, Willson raises long overdue questions about women's erotic expression within a 'postfeminist' condition. The 'new burlesque' demands above all a response - this fresh, brazen, provocative book at last provides it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857713159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese and Catherine D'Lish, the explosive revival of striptease, burlesque and overt female sexual performance has proved no less alluring to a new generation of women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70's performance artists such as Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneeman. Eloquent on 'prettiness' and power, desire and 'knowingness', money, sex and class, and with an extensive knowledge of burlesque's rich tradition, Willson raises long overdue questions about women's erotic expression within a 'postfeminist' condition. The 'new burlesque' demands above all a response - this fresh, brazen, provocative book at last provides it.
The League of Exotic Dancers
Author: Kaitlyn Regehr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190457562
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
"The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion has been an annual tradition since 1955, when the League of Exotic Dancers (LED), one of America's earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, held its first meeting. Today, situated in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas" or "50s Vegas," The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion now takes the form of a social club and support group, where these late life dancers perform their half-century-year-old routines from the golden age of burlesque to a rally of counter culture neo-burlesque fans"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190457562
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
"The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion has been an annual tradition since 1955, when the League of Exotic Dancers (LED), one of America's earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, held its first meeting. Today, situated in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas" or "50s Vegas," The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion now takes the form of a social club and support group, where these late life dancers perform their half-century-year-old routines from the golden age of burlesque to a rally of counter culture neo-burlesque fans"--
Being Gorgeous
Author: Jacki Willson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857726919
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy's, Audacity Chutzpah, Burly Q and Carnesky's Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857726919
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy's, Audacity Chutzpah, Burly Q and Carnesky's Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity.
The Gymnast
Author: Patrick J. Bird
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 197727806X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Gymnast might have been an βeverymanβ memoir: Patrick grew up hard and fast in the New York of the 1950s and β60s. He found a sport and then a career he was passionate about. Found love, raised a family. Except The Gymnast isnβt any old coming-of-age tale. Patrick contracted polio, and one of his legs atrophied because of it. He became the boy with the βrepulsive leg,β as he called it, and for a long time, he didnβt believe heβd have a normal life. With grit and dedication (and lots of luck), Patrick forged the life he wanted. He successfully competed on Big Ten and NCAA championship gymnastics teams and coached the sport at the collegiate level. He earned a PhD with an emphasis in exercise science. After a turbulent romance, he married his childhood sweetheart, and they raised three children. Humorous and sad, heartwarming as much as it is heart-wrenching, The Gymnast follows a unique thread that weaves together disability, sport, and romance. Few stories talk about disabled people dealing with sex, romance, bullying, and competing successfully at the highest level of sport. Patrick may have grown up different, but his compelling story will resonate with every reader.
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 197727806X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Gymnast might have been an βeverymanβ memoir: Patrick grew up hard and fast in the New York of the 1950s and β60s. He found a sport and then a career he was passionate about. Found love, raised a family. Except The Gymnast isnβt any old coming-of-age tale. Patrick contracted polio, and one of his legs atrophied because of it. He became the boy with the βrepulsive leg,β as he called it, and for a long time, he didnβt believe heβd have a normal life. With grit and dedication (and lots of luck), Patrick forged the life he wanted. He successfully competed on Big Ten and NCAA championship gymnastics teams and coached the sport at the collegiate level. He earned a PhD with an emphasis in exercise science. After a turbulent romance, he married his childhood sweetheart, and they raised three children. Humorous and sad, heartwarming as much as it is heart-wrenching, The Gymnast follows a unique thread that weaves together disability, sport, and romance. Few stories talk about disabled people dealing with sex, romance, bullying, and competing successfully at the highest level of sport. Patrick may have grown up different, but his compelling story will resonate with every reader.
The Stripper's Pocketbook
Author: Lars Mundi
Publisher: BoD β Books on Demand
ISBN: 8771884025
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book is intended as a breath of fresh air for those who think your relationship needs something extra. It may be you have an acquaintance, a friend or girlfriend you think would like to have a fun experience. When you choose to do a strip show, always remember others' limits. That they must be respected, just as he or she must respect your boundaries. Whoever we are as a people, whether we are men or women, so we enjoy how others think of us and put us in the center of their lives. The same joy goes when we are talking about getting a strip show or doing one. I am about to make sure that the person you have chosen to get the experience to be in the center of this experience. People will love that is being done something extra for them as you give them this experience. My desire with this book is to give an insight into, what it means to be a stripper and what underlies into a strip show. It is not intended that you should throw yourself into this profession, but more as something to refresh your relationship with. And you'll even get experience of being the star of the evening with the magic associated with it.
Publisher: BoD β Books on Demand
ISBN: 8771884025
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book is intended as a breath of fresh air for those who think your relationship needs something extra. It may be you have an acquaintance, a friend or girlfriend you think would like to have a fun experience. When you choose to do a strip show, always remember others' limits. That they must be respected, just as he or she must respect your boundaries. Whoever we are as a people, whether we are men or women, so we enjoy how others think of us and put us in the center of their lives. The same joy goes when we are talking about getting a strip show or doing one. I am about to make sure that the person you have chosen to get the experience to be in the center of this experience. People will love that is being done something extra for them as you give them this experience. My desire with this book is to give an insight into, what it means to be a stripper and what underlies into a strip show. It is not intended that you should throw yourself into this profession, but more as something to refresh your relationship with. And you'll even get experience of being the star of the evening with the magic associated with it.