{"product_id":"burlesque-west-showgirls-sex-and-sin-in-postwar-vancouver-paperback-softback-9780802096463","title":"Burlesque West; Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802096463","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBurlesque West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eShowgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBecki L. Ross (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802096463\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 57 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘Ross’s book is outstanding… Ross very effectively uses the erotic entertainment business as a lens through which to view Vancouver history in the post-World War II period – a hugely important period in shaping what the city was to become… it gives us insight into the entire industry, profiling not only the strippers and the problems they faced, but also the men who owned and ran the clubs.’ - Gerald Hunt: \u003cem\u003eLabour\/leTravail, vol 67: Spring2011\u003c\/em\u003e 'Ross paints a complex and rich historical snapshot of Vancouver nightlife and argues that the industry was fundamentally important to the city's burgeoning economy.' - Lara Campbell (BC Studies; Number 169: Spring 2011) ‘On the growing bookshelf of work on strippers and strip clubs, their histories, economy, politics, and cultural roles, Burlesque west stands out as a work that humanizes all its players by completing the historical picture… Ross offers a thoroughly researched and compelling work that not only reveals the tremendous cultural debt owed to burlesque but begins to capture this important piece of our collective urban histories. ’ - Michelle M. Carnes; \u003cem\u003eCanadian Journal of Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e: vol 36:03:2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In \u003cem\u003eBurlesque West\u003c\/em\u003e,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before \"striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming,\" in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Provocative and challenging, \u003cem\u003eBurlesque West\u003c\/em\u003e combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter One: Uncloaking the Striptease Past\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Early Twentieth Century Burlesque and the Tease Factor\u003cbr\u003e Postwar Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e Vancouver: Terminal City\u003cbr\u003e Postwar Striptease: the Stain of Stigma, Ill-understood Paradoxes, and the Dearth of Sleuths\u003cbr\u003e Economic Efflorescence: Under the Thumb of Abolitionists\u003cbr\u003e Wilfully Plucky: Negotiating the Stripper Stigma\u003cbr\u003e Bankrolling My Research\u003cbr\u003e Righteous, Angry Canadians Sound Off\u003cbr\u003e Oral Histories Unlock the Vault\u003cbr\u003e Why Me?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Two: \"I Ain't Rebecca, and This Ain't Sunnybrook Farm\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Men Behind the Marquee\u003cbr\u003e Postwar Vancouver Heats Up After Dark\u003cbr\u003e Classic Burlesque at the State Theatre\u003cbr\u003e Fancy Nightclubs in the City's West End\u003cbr\u003e Celebrities Work Their Magic Amidst the Stalactites at the Cave Supper Club\u003cbr\u003e Deluxe Showgirls at Isy's Supper Clubs\u003cbr\u003e The Penthouse Cabaret: The City's Oldest Stationary Funhouse\u003cbr\u003e East End Nightclubs: Smilin' Buddha, New Delhi, Kublai Khan\u003cbr\u003e Shakin' It Up at the Harlem Nocturne\u003cbr\u003e Hotel Explosion in the City and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e Legal Conundrums: Hounded by the Law Post-Decriminalization\u003cbr\u003e Changing Times\u003cbr\u003e Tarred by the Brush of Immorality\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Three: \"You Gotta Have a Gimmick\": Dancers and Their Acts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Undressing for Success: White American Queens of Striptease Set the Glamour Bar\u003cbr\u003e Impersonating the Exotic Other\u003cbr\u003e Diversities Abounded Among Locals in the Port City\u003cbr\u003e White Vancouver Dancers Perfect a Gimmick\u003cbr\u003e Racy Acts: Black Stripteasers and the White Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Chinese, Latina, South Asian and First Nations Dancers: More Absent than Present\u003cbr\u003e Hoochie Coochie Queers Work Terminal City\u003cbr\u003e Playing the Striptease Game\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Four: \"Peelers Sell Beer, and the Money Was Huge\": The Shifting Conditions of Work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Ladies and Genitals, Let's Tickle Your Pickle, Heat Your Meat, and Pop Your Cork\"\u003cbr\u003e Money: Making It and Spending It\u003cbr\u003e Dancers and Their Co-Workers\u003cbr\u003e Dancers' Relationships with Patrons\u003cbr\u003e Traveling the Circuit\u003cbr\u003e Supplementing Striptease Work\u003cbr\u003e Augmenting Marketability\u003cbr\u003e Transition to Poles and Showers on Hotel Stages\u003cbr\u003e Spreading and Split Beavers\u003cbr\u003e A New Era Dawns\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Five: \"Everyone Wanted to Date a Dancer, Nobody Wanted to Marry One\": Occupational Hazards in the Industry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stripper Stigma as Occupational Hazard\u003cbr\u003e Temptations of Drugs and Alcohol\u003cbr\u003e The Toll of Sexual Harassment and Assault\u003cbr\u003e Women Make Waves in Unions Country-Wide\u003cbr\u003e A Small-Scale, Transient Business\u003cbr\u003e Dancers Compete as Freelancers\u003cbr\u003e The Anti-Union Resolve of Club Owners and Booking Agents\u003cbr\u003e Dodging the Law\u003cbr\u003e Uninterested Male-Dominated Unions and Unreceptive Labour Law\u003cbr\u003e Directing Activist Energies Forward\u003cbr\u003e Processes of Downsizing and Deskilling\u003cbr\u003e Dancing in the 1980s: The Me-Generation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Six: \"You Started to Feel Like a Dinosaur\": Exiting and Aging in the Business\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Pleasures and Perils of Risky Business\u003cbr\u003e The Respectability Sweepstakes\u003cbr\u003e Exiting and Aging\u003cbr\u003e Post-1980 Changes in the Business\u003cbr\u003e Repudiations Recur\u003cbr\u003e Striptease Spin-offs Trouble the Whore Stigma\u003cbr\u003e Contemporary Organizing\u003cbr\u003e Olympian Beauty Games\u003cbr\u003e The Steel-Shafted Stiletto: A Museum Artefact in the Offing? 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