Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body: 14 - Rilegato

Werner, Maggie M.

 
9780271087764: Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body: 14
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ISBN 10: 0271087765 ISBN 13: 9780271087764
Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2020

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Maggie M. Werner is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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Editore
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0271087765
ISBN 13 
9780271087764
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
224
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780271087771: Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body: 14

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ISBN 10:  0271087773 ISBN 13:  9780271087771
Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2020
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