{"product_id":"burlesque-west-showgirls-sex-and-sin-in-postwar-vancouver-9780802096463","title":"Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Becki Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802096463\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoss, Becki:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBecki L. Ross\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389514002547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":67.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4170ddae-4215-41cb-a8e6-db14bd7b96cb.jpg?v=1661609002","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/burlesque-west-showgirls-sex-and-sin-in-postwar-vancouver-9780802096463","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}