Ross, Becki,  1959- <br/><br/>
Burlesque West :  showgirls, sex and sin in postwar Vancouver / 
Becki L. Ross. 
 - Toronto ;  Buffalo :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :  illustrations (some color) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface : beginnings, backlash, and brazenness --  1. Uncloaking the striptease past --  2. 'I ain't Rebecca, and this ain't Sunnybrook Farm' : men behind the marquee --  3. 'We were like snowflakes--no two were alike' : dancers and their gimmicks --  4. 'Peelers sell beer, and the money was huge' : the shifting conditions of selling fantasy --  5. 'Everyone wanted to date a dancer, nobody wanted to marry one' : occupational hazards in the industry --  6. 'You started to feel like a dinosaur' : exiting and aging in the business. 
<br/><br/> "After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West, the first critical history of the city's notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver - which provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, Burlesque West is an ambitious and engaging social history that looks at the convergence of the personal and the political in a phenomenon that combines sex, art and entertainment, and commerce."--Jacket 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442697225 9781442697843 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Burlesque (Theater)--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Striptease--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Stripteasers--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Showgirls--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Nightlife--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Sex industry--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Burlesque (Theater)--History.--British Columbia--Vancouver<br/>Stripteasers--History.--British Columbia--Vancouver<br/>Showgirls--History.--British Columbia--Vancouver<br/>Nightlife--History.--British Columbia--Vancouver
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1949  / .B875 2009