Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping
by Elisabeth Eaves
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"It began when she was a teenager with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women's bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with professional sex workers, leading to a plunge into their world. And when Elisabeth Eaves left the world of peep shows and private dancers for the more socially acceptable career of international journalism, she found she could not put that fascination show more behind her. Her experiences had left her with too many questions and too few answers. So she returned to the world she had left behind. Now, in this candid and insightful book, she recounts her firsthand experience of stripping and gives us a new understanding of women's sexuality and contemporary sexual mores." "Bare follows the author and her fellow dancers through Seattle strip clubs and bachelor parties, exploring in riveting detail Eaves's own motivations and behavior, as well as those of her coworkers, as they make their way through the sometimes exhilarating, often disturbing world of stripping. Grounded in an understanding of the intricate dynamics of exchanging sexual services for money, Eaves's narrative examines the ways in which the work affects the women; how they negotiate the slippery boundaries between their jobs and their "real" lives; how their personal relationships are altered; how they reconcile themselves - or don't - to the stereotypes that surround their profession; whether the work is exploitative or empowering or both."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Interesting thus far. It is a quick read - and is tough to put down. An inside look at the stripping industry. I liked some of the behind the scenes info. But I typically like to collect stories about peoples jobs and what they do - the ins and outs of an industry.
I was not really interested in this books as a book on feminism and womens role as "sexual objects" in society. I thought some of these parts were whiny and off base.
I was not really interested in this books as a book on feminism and womens role as "sexual objects" in society. I thought some of these parts were whiny and off base.
I tried but could not get in to it, so I am going to skip this one.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping
- Original publication date
- 2002-10-15
- Important places
- Lusty Lady (Seattle, Washington, USA)
- Epigraph
- You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
—Edmund to Fanny in Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.8092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera Ballet and modern dance modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography; Description, critical appraisal of specific theatres and companies Biography
- LCC
- GV1799.4 .E15 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Dancing
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 210
- Popularity
- 155,013
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.68)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 4
