Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:52:51 +0000
Subject: [Fwd: [cultstud-l] FWD: call for papers]





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> Call for Papers
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> Flesh for Fantasy: The Culture of Exotic Dance is looking for pieces
> (scholarly, poetic, autobiographical, and others) for an
> interdisciplinary and personal anthology on the complex and multifaceted
> aspects of exotic dance.
>
> With the rapid expansion of exotic dance clubs in the 1980s and 90s and
> the various transformations clubs have undergone in the past two decades
> (e. g., increased contact, suburbanization, gentrification,
> unionization, globalization and shifts in audience), we are interested
> in essays that discuss how these shifts have affected the scene of
> exotic dance.  Our interests include, but are not limited to, the
> following: exotic dance as a site of work; customer/dancer interactions;
> the political, social, cultural, economic, geographical, or psychic
> implications of dancing; and identity issues for both dancers and
> customers. We seek pieces that approach exotic dance from various
> disciplinary (cultural, literary, historical, sociological,
> anthropological, geographical, psychological and economic) and
> personal/political viewpoints (feminist...both sex radical and radical,
> womanist, queer, post-colonial, critical race and marxist).
>
> Abstracts of 250-500 words and brief personal biographies are due July
> 15 2000. Please e-mail abstracts, biographies and/or questions to
> Danielle Egan at danielle.e-AT-charmed.zzn.com. If e-mail is unavailable
> please send information to Professor Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence
> University, Department of Sociology Canton, NY 13617
>
> The editor:
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> Danielle Egan is at work on a book entitled "The Phallus Palace:
> Stripping Spaces, Desiring Subjects and the Fantasy of Objects" (Ph.D.,
> Boston College). She worked as an exotic dancer/researcher conducting an
> ethnography of two exotic dance clubs in the New England area. She will
> be Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, where
> she will teach sexuality, social theory, sociology of the body, and
> social control. In the past three years she has taught both women's
> studies and sociology courses on sexuality and sex work at Boston
> College, Harvard University, and Yale University.
>
> Julie Engel Manga
> Visiting Assistant Professor,
> Sociology Dept.
> Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
> manga-AT-bc.edu
>