Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Katherine Frank's book, G-Strings and Sympathy, provides an anthropological look into the fantasies of male strip club regulars in a Southern City she calls Laurelton. Turning the gaze onto the gazers, a group left unstudied in the majority of literature on sex work, Frank unpacks how trips to the strip club are closely linked with discourses about sexuality, consumption and masculinity. Through six years of participant observation at a variety of clubs in Laurelton and in-depth interviews with thirty self-professed strip club regulars, Frank delves into not only why these men attend strip clubs but how these visits are made meaningful to them through their interactions with dancers, other men, wives and their own fantasies.
Repository Citation
Schilt, Kristen. "On Katherine Frank's G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 3, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol3/iss4/12
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