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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"strippers"”.
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Motivations of professional strippers
<p>This research studied 470 different strippers across the globe through a content analysis of messages exchanged in a stripper-oriented discussion group. Stripping literature has primarily focused on the external rewards of stripping and has found that the primary motivation for engaging in …
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Doing what ‘Works Best’: Exploring the Narratives of Mothers who Work as Strippers
Despite a large body of research exploring the experiences of working mothers today, there is little literature focusing on mothers who take part in stigmatized and unconventional forms of paid labour. Taking up this line of inquiry, my MA thesis project explores both micro and macro-level …
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The fantasy of masculinity: a study of masculinity in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas
… guided by the following question: how do female strippers and male customers (co-)construct and negotiate masculinities in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas? Based on this question and 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I make three main arguments. First, I contend that the …
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Striptease: An anthropological view
… as an act guided by the rules of performance. Strippers, and to a lesser extent the audience, can then be seen as actors employing a fantasy phase to sustain their respective roles within the charade of performance sex. Strippers and audiences are also players within the concept of performance …
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A Game That Cannot Be Won: Media Framing of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal
… a group of Duke players decided to hire some strippers. Although the night started out harmless enough, the end result was two angry African American women leaving the house of 610 Buchanan Street to alleged sounds of insults and racial epithets. The police arrived a short time later to …
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A new strategy for selecting and evaluating physical solvents for gas absorption
… configurations that:include heat exchangers and strippers. The effect of the process configuration on the selected solvent was investigated in detail and it was found that there is no universal solvent which is the best for any process configuration, but that there is a best solvent for a given …