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June 15, 2006
"Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love" by R.D. Egan
"Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love" may sound like the title of another coed-turned-stripper tell-all, but if that's what you're hunting for, hunt elsewhere. Danielle Egan did indeed work as a stripper, but in the context of a women's studies/sociology graduate student investigating the complicated relationship between exotic dancers and their regular customers. Egan clearly writes for an academic audience while discussing the interactions between dancers and regulars. She explores the lines between fantasy and reality, romance and finance, masochism and narcissism. Egan uses a few first person interactions to illustrate and enliven her discussion, but the majority of the book is dense and occasionally essoteric enough to force you to read sections a couple of times before completely understanding her point. One thing she makes very clear, though, is that sex work is a complex system of power interactions that deserves a great deal of study, especially from feminist and sociological standpoints. In short, this is well worth the time it takes to read.
ISBN: 1403970440
Jennifer, Reference
Posted by jnardine at June 15, 2006 02:55 PM