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Empowering or Demeaning?

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These pages weigh in on the feminist burlesque debate. Does the form offer performers the platform for empowerment on and/or off the stage, or does the form reinforce patriarchal objectification of the female body? 

This page has tags:

  1. Rachel Sigrid Freeburg Harmony Bench

Contents of this tag:

  1. Pleasure in Burlesque: Power in the Erotic and Presence
  2. Felt Pleasure or Performed Pleasure?
  3. Confidence or Disrespect?
  4. Second-Hand Pleasure: Bettie Page's Bondage Films
  5. Neo-Burlesque Stars: A Challenge to Hegemonic Beauty
  6. Bawdy Women: Female Comics in Burlesque
  7. The Liminal Space of Burlesque
  8. Anonymous Voice vs Public Image
  9. Presence: Commanding a Gaze
  10. How Rose La Rose Influenced Her Own Image
  11. Exotic Dancing in 2003: Identity and Compromise
  12. Policed Pleasure
  13. Censorship Debate