The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque

If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. This book raises long overdue questions about women's erotic expression within a 'postfeminist' condition.