TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Becki
TI  - Burlesque West: showgirls, sex and sin in postwar Vancouver 
SN  - 9781442697225
AV  - PN1949 .B875 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Burlesque (Theater)
KW  - British Columbia
KW  - Vancouver
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Striptease
KW  - Stripteasers
KW  - Showgirls
KW  - Nightlife
KW  - Sex industry
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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