{"product_id":"gstrings-and-sympathy-9780822329725","title":"GStrings and Sympathy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides an account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating heterosexual, male strip club \"regulars.\" This title shows how the dynamics of male pleasure and privilege in strip clubs are intertwined with ideas about what it means to be a man in contemporary America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eG-Strings and Sympathy\u003c\/i\u003e effortlessly merges the personal with the polemical, the scholarly with the serendipitous, and the earthy with the esoteric. Informed, intelligent, yet always accessible, Katherine Frank’s writing sheds a piercing beam of light on the shadowy realm of exotic dance.”—Lily Burana, author of \u003ci\u003eStrip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I am not aware of any comparable book on the sex industry that draws so insightfully both on the author’s personal experience and on scintillating analyses drawn from contemporary cultural theory. Katherine Frank’s book is highly intelligent, original, illuminating, extremely readable, and, to say the least, brave.”—Anne McClintock, author of\u003ci\u003e Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface: Skin Brings Men xiii\u003cbr\u003e Part One \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Observing the Observers: Methods and Themes 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Laurelton and Its Strip Clubs: The Historical, Physical, and Social Terrain 39\u003cbr\u003e Part Two \u003cbr\u003e Interlude: \u003ci\u003eStrawberries\u003c\/i\u003e (fiction) 79\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Just Trying to Relax: Masculinity, Touristic Practice, and the Idiosyncrasies of Power 85\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 The Pursuit of the Fantasy Penis: Bodies, Desires, and Ambiguities 121\u003cbr\u003e Part Three \u003cbr\u003e Interlude: \u003ci\u003eFakes\u003c\/i\u003e (fiction) 159\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 \"I'm Not Like the Other Guys\": Claims to Authentic Experience 173\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Hustlers, Pros, and the Girl Next Door: Social Class, Race, and the Consumption of the Authentic Female Body 203\u003cbr\u003e Part Four \u003cbr\u003e Interlude: \u003ci\u003eThe Management of Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e (fiction) 231\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 The Crowded Bedroom: Marriage, Monogamy, and Fantasy 241\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 Disciplining Erotic Practice 273\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 281\u003cbr\u003e Notes 285\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 311\u003cbr\u003e Index 327","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030807383,"sku":"9780822329725","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329725.jpg?v=1730494303","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gstrings-and-sympathy-9780822329725","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}