Striptease
Shteir, Rachel, 1964-
Striptease the untold history of the girlie show / [electronic resource] : Rachel Shteir. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 438 p. : ill.
"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?
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Striptease--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
PN1949.S7 / S55 2004eb
792.7
Striptease the untold history of the girlie show / [electronic resource] : Rachel Shteir. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 438 p. : ill.
"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?
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Striptease--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
PN1949.S7 / S55 2004eb
792.7