Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry

Siobhan Brooks · State University of New York Press · 2010 · Originally in English · intermediate

The essential history of how racial inequality shaped pole dance's technical development in the strip club industry.

About the author

The author is a former exotic dancer and labour organiser with direct experience at the Lusty Lady, a unionised peep show and dance venue in Seattle. Her positioning as both participant and organiser gives the work its distinctive ethnographic authority and labour perspective, moving beyond academic distance to centre dancer knowledge and collective action.

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