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Whorephobia : strippers on art, work, and life / edited by Lizzie Borden

Published
New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2022]
Physical Description
432 pages ; 21 cm
Additional Creators
Borden, Lizzie, 1958-

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Contents
Introduction: Stripper Archive / Antonia Crane -- 'Go-going-- New York & New Jersey 1978-79' / Interview with Linda Yablonsky about Cookie Mueller -- 'Stripper disintegration' / Interview with Matias Viegener about Kathy Acker -- 'Take your passion and make it happen' / Interview with Jo Wheldon, by Jill Morley -- 'Go-go girls' / Interview with Susan McMullen -- 'Bad day at the beauty salon' / Interview with John Rauchenberger about Maggie Estep -- 'Trick' / Interview with Chris Kraus, by Allie Carr -- 'Robbie's Mardi Gras' / Interview with Jodi Sh. Doff -- 'The good passenger' / Interview with Terese Pampellonne -- 'Some kind of artist' / Interview with Jill Morley -- 'Honey on a razor' / Interview with Jill Morley about Susan Walsh -- 'Something going on' / Interview with Debi Kelly Van Cleave -- 'Notes from the catwalk' / Interview with Elissa Wald -- 'Push and pull' / Interview with Essence Revealed -- 'Dancing steps to tiny feet' / Interview with Sassy Penny, by Allie Carr -- 'Flashing my gash for cash' (excerpt from 'The Beaver Show') / Interview with Jacq Frances, by Jill Morley -- "Secret life of an autistic stripper" / Interview with Reese Piper -- "The truth about hoeing" / Interview with Lindsay Byron, by Jill Morley -- "Diary of a black heaux" / Interview with the Incredible, Edible Akynos -- "Your life as a middle-aged stripper" / Interview with Antonia Crane, by Dr. Vanessa Carlisle -- "We were strippers once" / Interview with Lily Burana, by Antonia Crane -- "amputee queen" / Interview with AM davies, by Selena the Stripper -- "A forest" / Interview with Kayla Tange -- "Seeking and finding arrangements" / Interview with Selena the Stripper, by the Godess Cori.
Summary
"No one knows more than strippers about being looked at: as objects of desire, objects of curiosity, as angels or Jezebels or hookers with hearts of gold. In this anthology, twenty-three dancers whose careers span decades, geographies, and identities demand to be seen. Through stories from first nights on the job to the day they hung up their sky-high heels-or decided they never will-these writers offer glimpses into lives of camaraderie and celebration, joy, pride, despair, frustration, self-doubt, and fear. Their unfiltered perspectives on their lives, onstage and off, are a powerful counternarrative to the whorephobia that shrouds the conventional portrayals of strippers in crime movies, TV shows, music videos, newspaper articles, and legislative debates. Each of these illuminating essays and interviews peels away tired myths and salacious speculation and presents the naked truth: that sex work is real work and strippers are real people"--
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ISBN
9781644212271 paperback
1644212277 paperback
9781644212288 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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