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Social Science Pornography

Taking It Off, Putting It On

Women in the Strip Trade

by (author) Chris Brucket

Publisher
Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Initial publish date
Jul 2002
Category
Pornography, Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889614055
    Publish Date
    Jul 2002
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

Taking It Off, Putting It On is an interesting mix of formal sociological analysis and feminist theory, grounded in the voices of female strippers.
This book is a careful, studied, theoretical walk through "women and work." The author interviews female strippers to reveal the core of the world of the professional stripper. Bruckert contends that the audience's reading of the stripper's sexualized form does not erase her authorship; she is able to "put on" the audience while she is "taking it (her clothes) off."
Bruckert was herself a stripper and writes of feeling objectified by the usual feminist analysis of strippers. These feelings were the catalyst for her interest in women and work. She uses her intimate knowledge of the world of the stripper to journey to the heart and soul of the industry and allow the voice of the stripper to emerge as the "subject" in an experience in which she is usually objectified.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Dr. Chris Bruckert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.