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Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town

3.8/5 ( ratings)

This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated “rust belt” of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: February 07, 2011

ISBN: 0520266919

ISBN 13: 9780520266919

Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town

3.8/5 ( ratings)

This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated “rust belt” of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: February 07, 2011

ISBN: 0520266919

ISBN 13: 9780520266919

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