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    Undressed: A Narrative Analysis of Identity Construction among Female Exotic Dancers

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    2004
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    Eldridge, Jessica A.
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    Although female strippers often constitute a topic of public discourse, current academic research has often employed a framework of deviance, failing to encapsulate the entirety of dancers' identities and experiences. The current study is an ethnography of the stripping subculture, sketched through field notes at 9 strip clubs in the Midwestern United States and interviews with 12 female strippers. Features of identity construction focusing on the sales and service-oriented aspects of stripping are analyzed in the context of social role theory. These include role authenticity, emotional labor, and role distancing, as well as their implications for self-esteem and assertiveness. Narrative resistance strategies are also examined. Above all, this study seeks to present dancers in their own words as agents of their identity formations.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10920/9612
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