The Happy Stripper Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque

Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque

By: Jacki Willson

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Paperback | 24 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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 heard of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artists 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 women artists familiar with the provocative work of 70’s performance artists such as Hannah Wikle 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, Wilson raises long overdue questions about women’s erotic expression within a ‘postfeminist’ condition. The ‘new burlesque’ demands about all a response—this fresh, brazen, provocative book at last provides it.

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''From London to New York, the new burlesque bars and clubs are attracting audience that would baulk at frequenting a pub with a strip show on Saturday nights...It's this new phenomenon that Wilson sets out to examine...Not only do more and more men and women enjoy watching burlesque...For Wilson, such unexamined pleasure is problematic...she looks to the history of burlesque for an answer to this conundrum.'' -- Dea Birkett, Oldie

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List of Illustrations
Introduction: Show Off	p. 1
Empowering, Disempowering, Overpowering	p. 1
Feminism and Post(-)Feminism	p. 8
Burlesque	p. 17
What is Burlesque?	p. 17
Crossing into the mainstream	p. 17
Democratic excesses	p. 25
'Stars' and 'Queens'	p. 33
The unruly woman	p. 33
Menacing vamp	p. 40
Body as Spectacle	p. 49
The Nude	p. 49
Pornography and erotica	p. 49
Histories of female performance	p. 56
The Female Body in Performance	p. 63
Carolee Schneemann	p. 63
Hannah Wilke	p. 70
The 'Leg Business'	p. 79
Money	p. 79
The man's world of business	p. 79
Ruthless tycoons	p. 87
Sex	p. 95
The unholy trinity (strippers, hookers and porn stars)	p. 95
The courtesan	p. 101
Powers of Seduction	p. 111
Painted Ladies	p. 111
Artifice	p. 111
Glamour	p. 119
Veiling and Nakedness	p. 126
Democracy	p. 126
Freedom	p. 133
Guerrilla Theatre	p. 143
The Freak	p. 143
Subversive Submission	p. 143
The freak show	p. 150
Knowingness	p. 157
Gossip	p. 157
Networking	p. 165
Conclusion: Showdown	p. 173
Feminist Fluidity	p. 173
Virus	p. 180
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 224
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Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque

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