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Women's Sexuality, Women's Health, Reproductive & Body Issues, General & Miscellaneous Performing Arts

Undressed For Success

by Brenda Foley
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Overview

Using the tools of performance studies, gender theory, and cultural history, Brenda Foley explores the striking similarities between beauty pageantry and striptease. Undressed for Success features extensive primary source research—newspapers, journals, trade publications, photography collections, press releases, memoirs, and interviews with both strippers and pageant contestants.

Synopsis

The first book-length systematic comparison of striptease and beauty contests as American theatrical forms devoted to display of the female body

About the Author, Brenda Foley

Brenda Foley is Assistant Professor of English, St. Thomas University, Canada.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
244
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781403969934

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