Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body

by Maggie M. Werner

Book Overview

Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric.

Informed by her own ethnographic research conducted in strip clubs and theaters, Werner analyzes the movement, dress, and cosmetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271087765
• ISBN13: 9780271087764
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"