Colosi (social policy, U. of Lincoln) offers this ethnography on lap-dancing based on ethnographic research and hands-on experience dancing at Starlets, a lap-dancing club (referred to as strip
clubs in the US) in Northern England. The text is a detailed, fact-oriented study of the career of a single dancer, and includes the variety of tasks she and other dancers perform, the types of
customers they perform for, and the interesting rules and hierarchies involved in working in this type of establishment. The work, part of the Crime Ethnography series that provides detailed
studies involving the more colorful side of life, is well sourced with chapter notes, and a bibliography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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