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Article: G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire. By KATHERINE FRANK. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. 331. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
There's a recent cartoon in a certain "men's magazine" in which an elegant "escort" is pictured saying good night to one of her customers. "I'll be sure to mention you in my doctoral thesis," she says. It's lucky for us that Katherine Frank was taking such good notes as she worked as an exotic dancer (stripper, lap dancer, private dancer, nude table dancer) for six years sporadically and for over a year as an active ethnographer while completing her dissertation in anthropology at Duke, luckier still ...
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