AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire by Katherine Frank ISBN: 0-8223-2972-7 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Understand the book for its actual theme
Comment: While this is obviously adapted from academic material, Frank uses her experience as an exotic dancer to dig into the question of why men frequent strip clubs.

I'll grant that, superficially, this is a darned easy question to answer.

Still, one of the real strengths of the book is that Frank was able to see past her academic preconceptions and discover an emotional terrain that was not what she anticipated. The standard feminist analysis (male power and domination of women) didn't shed much light on male motivation. She considers a range of possible agendas, from the obvious to the esoteric, and never settles on a trite or doctrinaire analysis.

The book keeps feeling like its on the verge of a profound insight but it never seems to find it. Frankly, even though the author wasn't trying to focus on the women who work as exotic dancers, it was fascinating to learn the tricks and scripts used to create the illusion of intimacy and authenticity.

Rating: 3
Summary: An Extremely Anthropological Disection Of The Male Psyche
Comment: I've read a number of books dealing with this genre, but this was (by far) the most dry. It is extremely clinical, and reads more like a doctoral dissertation than a book. That's not to say that there weren't some interesting points made in the book, but you REALLY had to dig through the anthro jargon.

Franks cites other source a lot -- more than any other book I've read. Nearly every paragrah refers to an exterior source. I found this a little distracting.

Overall, I'm not sorry I read the book, but be prepared -- it does not wisk you along -- you really have to fight to glean Frank's points.

Similar Books:

	Title: Bare : On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power by Elisabeth Eaves ISBN: 0375412336 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00
	Title: Lapdancer by Juliana Beasley ISBN: 1576871398 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00
	Title: Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America by Lily Burana ISBN: 0786886757 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 19 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00
	Title: Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire by Brian McNair ISBN: 0415237343 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95
	Title: Ivy League Stripper by Heidi Mattson ISBN: 1559702907 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 31 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95