Neon wasteland [electronic resource] : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town / Susan Dewey.
Dewey, Susan.
2011
HQ18.U5 .D49 2011eb
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Title Neon wasteland [electronic resource] : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town / Susan Dewey.
Author Dewey, Susan.
ISBN 9780520948310 (electronic bk.)
9780520266902
9780520266919 (pbk.)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 258 p.)
Call Number HQ18.U5 .D49 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 155.3/33
Summary This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Feminized labor and the classed body
Everyday survival strategies
Being a good mother in a "bad" profession
Pseudointimacy and romantic love
Calculating risks, surviving danger
Body work and the feminization of poverty
Conclusion.

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