Amateur Stripping: Sexualized Entertainment and Gendered Fun

Calhoun, Thomas C.; Cannon, Julie Ann Harms; Fisher, Rhonda

doi:10.1080/00380237.1996.10570637

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“…Fine (1991) compared exotic dance with ballet and explained the former's low status in the 1980s and why it is not taught in high school (ballet, certified as part of elite culture, has established critics, expansive venues, charitable events to support it, well-funded companies, international links, textbooks and theories, schools, professional organizations, etc.). Exotic dance is examined as cultural meanings (Calhoun, Cannon, & Fisher, 1996;Frank, 2005;Hanna, 1999), social class (Trautner, 2005), tourist attraction (Donlon, 1998), and amateur contest (Agustin, 2005;Calhoun et al, 1996).…”

Section: Striptease Exotic Dancementioning

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Dance and Sexuality: Many Moves

Hanna

2010

Journal of Sex Research

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This literature review of dance and sexual expression considers dance and religion, dance and sexuality as a source of power, manifestations of sexuality in Western theater art and social dance, plus ritual and non-Western social dance. Expressions of gender, sexual orientation, asexuality, ambiguity, and adult entertainment exotic dance are presented. Prominent concerns in the literature are the awareness, closeting, and denial of sexuality in dance; conflation of sexual expression and promiscuity of gender and sexuality, of nudity and sexuality, and of dancer intention and observer interpretation; and inspiration for infusing sexuality into dance. Numerous disciplines (American studies, anthropology, art history, comparative literature, criminology, cultural studies, communication, dance, drama, English, history, history of consciousness, journalism, law, performance studies, philosophy, planning, retail geography, psychology, social work, sociology, and theater arts) have explored dance and sexual expression, drawing upon the following concepts, which are not mutually exclusive: critical cultural theory, feminism, colonialism, Orientalism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, queer theory, and semiotics. Methods of inquiry include movement analysis, historical investigation, anthropological fieldwork, autoethnography, focus groups, surveys, and self-reflection or autobiographical narrative. Directions for future exploration are addressed.

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Section: Striptease Exotic Dancementioning

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Dance and Sexuality: Many Moves

Hanna

2010

Journal of Sex Research

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“…Social control of dancers and customers has been an area of interrogation, as well as how control is challenged or resisted (Egan, 2004;Montemurro, 2001). The cultural meanings of nudity have been explored (Calhoun et al, 1996;Frank, 2005b;Hanna, 1999a). Researchers have recently begun analyzing the legal battles surrounding strip club location, the rhetoric of 'secondary effects', and the regulation of strip clubs, using different theoretical and methodological approaches (Frank, 2005b;Hanna, 1999aHanna, , 2003Land et al, 2004;Linz et al, 2004;Linz et al, 2006;Paul et al, 2001).…”

Section: Academic Research and Strip Clubsmentioning

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Thinking Critically about Strip Club Research

Frank¹

2007

Sexualities

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This article explores two interrelated issues in the exotic dance literature: (1) claims that research on strip clubs is virgin, unstudied territory, and not taken seriously, and (2) the unrelenting focus on negotiations of power between men and women in the clubs. It argues that the study of commercial sexand here specifically of exotic dance -is itself culturally informed. Thus, there has been a great deal of studying in strip clubs, but less exploration of the ways that these venues, and those of us who study them, are implicated in larger social, cultural, political, economic, and intimate relationships, processes, and patterns of meaning. A cultural approach to the study of strip clubs (Agustín, 2005) opens our investigation of these important sites of sexual-economic exchange in theoretically innovative and timely ways.

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