Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (Intersections Book 7) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

This academic study a strip club gives a sociological insight of this culture that is rare. The author delves into a seedy club revealing the unbalance of a world where men are in control but women are the driving economic force.

Fast and Perfect

I did not expect much from this book because on it face the contemplation of gender division in a strip club is absolutely retarded. But I picked it up again after a year and found there is quite a bit here. Although the author did not actually work as a stripper, so her perspective on what it is really like to be one or what they are like to deal with as a "regular" (or whatever) is definitely limited, the bases are well covered and she is very thorough.As far as academic books that I have read so far on this topic, this is the best so far. It certainly is much better than "G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire" by Katherine Frank. Frank did not even really answer the questions she posed at the being of her book and the idea that Frank actually got a Ph.D. for writing that from Duke is scary... but typical.The biggest problem with this book is the left-wing "politically correct" crap that it is sprinkled with. Communist strippers? Seriously? It is clear that the author is smart and otherwise objective... so at times it looks like she had to include inane politically stuff just to please her academic overlords. Perhaps she actually is a victim of indoctrination, but it is hard to believe that she would be so stupid as to actually have some of the leftist perspectives she espouses.