Striptease the untold history of the girlie show /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10263683 |
Table of Contents:
- "A startled fawn upon the stage"
- Legs
- "Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts
- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque
- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway
- The first strippers and teasers
- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease
- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of
- The burlesque soul of striptease
- "Minskyville"
- "I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation
- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York
- Gypsy
- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque
- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair
- Striptease during wartime
- The private lives of strippers
- Stripty-second streets
- The seamy sides of striptease
- Striptease confidential
- You've gotta get a gimmick
- Topless dancing
- 1969: who killed striptease?