Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
30 January 2008 repeat 03 February
URBAN NIGHTLIFE David Grazian, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of On The Make – The Hustle of Urban Nightlife talks about his research of downtown Philadelphia which reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetuates elaborate cons.
THE BURLESQUE Laurie Taylor is joined by Jacki Willson, author of The Happy Stripper; Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque and Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communication, Goldsmiths College, London, to discuss the social phenomenon of The Burlesque.
Can stripping behind ostrich feather fans, cavorting in oversize champagne glasses and …yes, swinging around a pair of bright red spangly nipple-tassles really be empowering – as some women suggest. And what does it mean that this form of titillation in danger of becoming socially acceptable.
Additional information:
David Grazian Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife Publisher: Chicago University Press ISBN-10: 0226305678 ISBN-13: 978-0226305677
Jacki Willson Lecturer at Loughborough University
The Happy Stripper; Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd ISBN-10: 1845113187 ISBN-13: 978-1845113186
Angela McRobbie Professor of Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
Gender Culture and Social Change: Post-Feminist Masquerade (Sage 2007)
In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion and Popular Music Publisher: Routledge ISBN-10: 0415137500 ISBN-13: 978-0415137508
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