Striptease : the untold history of the girlie show
The fascinating, untold story of the history of undressing: over fifty years of taking it off. Striptease combined sexual display and parody, cool eros and wisecracking Bacchanalian humor. Striptease could be savage, patriotic, irreverent, vulgar, sophisticated, sentimental, and subversive--sometimes, all at once. In this vital cultural history, Rachel Shteir traces the ribald art from its nineteenth century vaudeville roots, through its long and controversial career, to its decline during the liberated 1960s. The book argues that striptease is an American form of popular entertainment--maybe the most American form of popular entertainment. Based on exhaustive research and filled with rare photographs and period illustrations, Striptease recreates the combustible mixture of license, independence, and sexual curiosity that allowed strippers to thrive for nearly a century. Shteir brings to life striptease's Golden Age, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theatres, nightclubs, vaudeville houses, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the Great White Way. Taking us behind the scenes, Rachel Shteir introduces us to a diverse cast of characters that collided on the burlesque stage, from tight-laced political reformers and flamboyant impresarios, to drag queens, shimmy girls, cootch dancers, tit serenaders, and even girls next door, lured into the profession by big-city aspirations
History
1 online resource (viii, 438 pages) : illustrations
9780198029359, 9781280564178, 9781429420389, 0198029357, 1280564172, 1429420383
76951652
"A startled fawn upon the stage"
Legs
"Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts
From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque
After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway
The first strippers and teasers
Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease
A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of
The burlesque soul of striptease
"Minskyville"
"I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation
"Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York
Gypsy
From literary strippers to queens of burlesque
"Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair
Striptease during wartime
The private lives of strippers
Stripty-second streets
The seamy sides of striptease
Striptease confidential
You've gotta get a gimmick
Topless dancing
1969: who killed striptease?
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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