Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1991

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Steinman, Clay

Abstract

In its formulation of the classy strip club, the adult entertainment industry incorporates a discursive relationship between class imagery, especially as the industry uses this to address consumers, and aesthetics, particularly hierarchical representations of woman's beauty. For the author (a former stripper at the adult entertainment club Pure Platinum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida), this relationship shores up the industry's structure, enabling its prolific connections to and with other cultural forms and practices, popular as well as marginal. Assuming adult entertainment occupies merely a cultural margin hinders insight into these important power relations. Grasping them and their changeability requires recognition that the industry shares material and ideological ties with forms more mainstream, such as Miss USA, Barbie, and Snow White.

Extent

135 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14773

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