Flesh for Fantasy: The Culture of Exotic Dance is looking for pieces
(scholarly, poetic, autobiographical, and others) for an
interdisciplinary and personal anthology on the complex and multifaceted
aspects of exotic dance.
With the rapid expansion of exotic dance clubs in the 1980s and 90s and
the various transformations clubs have undergone in the past two decades
(e. g., increased contact, suburbanization, gentrification,
unionization, globalization and shifts in audience), we are interested
in essays that discuss how these shifts have affected the scene of
exotic dance. Our interests include, but are not limited to, the
following: exotic dance as a site of work; customer/dancer interactions;
the political, social, cultural, economic, geographical, or psychic
implications of dancing; and identity issues for both dancers and
customers. We seek pieces that approach exotic dance from various
disciplinary (cultural, literary, historical, sociological,
anthropological, geographical, psychological and economic) and
personal/political viewpoints (feminist...both sex radical and radical,
womanist, queer, post-colonial, critical race and marxist).
Abstracts of 250-500 words and brief personal biographies are due August
15, 2000. Please e-mail abstracts, biographies, and/or questions to
Danielle Egan at danielle.e@charmed.zzn.com. If e-mail is unavailable
please send information to Professor Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence
University, Department of Sociology, Canton, NY 13617
The editor:
Danielle Egan is at work on a book entitled “The Phallus Palace:
Stripping Spaces, Desiring Subjects and the Fantasy of Objects” (Ph.D.,
Boston College). She worked as an exotic dancer/researcher conducting an
ethnography of two exotic dance clubs in the New England area. She will
be Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, where
she will teach sexuality, social theory, sociology of the body, and
social control. In the past three years she has taught both women’s
studies and sociology courses on sexuality and sex work at Boston
College, Harvard University, and Yale University.
Inquiries may also be directed to the address below.
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Michael Uebel
Assistant Professor, English
1215 Patterson Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
(O) 859.257.3674 (F) 859.323.1072
uebel@pop.uky.edu
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