Striptease recreates the combustible mixture of license,
independence, and sexual curiosity that allowed strippers to thrive for
nearly a century. Rachel Shteir brings to life striptease's Golden Age,
the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers
performed around the country, in burlesque theatres, nightclubs,
vaudeville houses, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the
Great White Way. Taking us behind the scenes, Shteir introduces us to a
diverse cast of characters that collided on the burlesque stage, from
tight-laced political reformers and flamboyant impresarios, to drag
queens, shimmy girls, cootch dancers, tit serenaders, and even girls
next door, lured into the profession by big-city aspirations. Throughout
the book, readers will find essential profiles of famed performers,
including Gypsy Rose Lee, "the Literary Stripper"; Lili St. Cyr, the
1950s mistress of exotic striptease; and Blaze Starr, the "human heat
wave," who literally set the stage on fire.
Striptease is
an insightful and entertaining portrait of an art form at once reviled
and embraced by the American public. Blending careful research and vivid
narration, Rachel Shteir captures striptease's combination of sham and
seduction while illuminating its surprisingly persistent hold on the
American imagination.
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