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Stripped - Reading the Erotic Body (Hardcover)
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Stripped - Reading the Erotic Body (Hardcover)
Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
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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 choices of topless
dancers and neo-burlesque performers. Drawing on critical methods
of analysis, she develops approaches for interpreting embodied
erotic rhetoric and the marginal cultural practices that construct
women's public erotic bodies. She follows these bodies out into the
streets-into the protest spaces where sex workers and anti-rape
activists challenge discourses about morality and victimhood and
struggle to remake their own identities. Throughout, Werner
showcases the voices of these performers and in the analyses shares
her experiences as an audience member, interviewer, and paying
customer. The result is a uniquely personal and erudite study that
advances conversations about women's agency and erotic performance,
moving beyond the binary that views the erotic body as either
oppressed or empowered. Theoretically sophisticated and
delightfully intimate, Stripped is an important contribution to the
study of the rhetoric of the body and to rhetorical and performance
studies more broadly.
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