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Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl

Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as drawing on contemporary and historical artworks and artefacts and those by other contemporary and historical artists, Alison J. Carr examines the experiences of showgirls and those who watch them to challenge the narrowness of representation and discussion around what has been termed sexualisation and the gaze. An account of the experience of being looked at, the book raises questions of how the showgirl is represented, the nature of the pleasure that she elicits and the suspicion that surrounds it, and what this means for feminism and the act of looking.

An embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by feminist critique) that images of women are linked to selling and that womens bodies have been commodified in capitalist culture, raising the question of whether this enables particular bodies those of glamorous women on display to become scapegoats for our deeper anxieties about consumerism.

Alison J. Carr is a contemporary art lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and an associate lecturer in the Fine Art and Media & Communication departments at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is an artist and writer whose works have been exhibited and performed in Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, London, Berlin, Giverny, Los Angeles, and Indiana.

Sexualities in Society

Series editor:
Helen Hester,

The University of West London, UK

Sexualities in Society offers a dedicated and much-needed space for the very best in interdisciplinary research on sex, sexualities, and twenty-first-century society. Its contemporary focus, methodological inclusivity, and international scope will provide a distinctive vantage point in terms of surveying the social organisation of sexuality. It critically addresses numerous aspects of sex and sexuality, from media representations, to embodied sexual practices, to the sometimes-controversial issues surrounding consent, sexual fantasy, and identity politics. It represents a critically rigorous, theoretically informed, and genuinely interdisciplinary attempt to interrogate a complex nexus of ideas regarding the ways in which sexualities inform, and are informed by, the broader sociopolitical contexts in which they emerge.

Titles in this series

Sex in the Digital Age

Paul G. Nixon and Isabel K. Dsterhft

National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective

The Homophobic Argument

Edited by Achim Rohde, Christina von Braun, Stefanie Schler-Springorum

Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl

How Do I Look?

Alison J. Carr

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Sexualities-in-Society/book-series/ASHSER1428

Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl

How Do I Look?

Alison J. Carr

First published 2018

by Routledge

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2018 Alison J. Carr

The right of Alison J. Carr to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Carr, Alison J., 1978 author.

Title: Viewing pleasure and being a showgirl : how do I look? / Alison J. Carr.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2018] | Series: Sexualities in society ; 6 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018004073 | ISBN 9781138285422 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315268996 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: ShowgirlsPsychology. | Sex in the performing artsPsychological aspects.

Classification: LCC PN1590.S3 C37 2018 | DDC 792.7/028019dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018004073

ISBN: 978-1-138-28542-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-26899-6 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Apex CoVantage, LLC

For Lara Gothique and Audrey Hepcat, for all your hard work in making shows happen. Your invisible labour to put the shows on I see it, thank you.

Contents

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(All figures are artworks by the author.)

I am grateful to Helen Hester, Neil Jordan, and Alice Salt for helping this book reach fruition.

And for thorough and thoughtful edits from Feona Attwood, Ellen Birrell, and Sharon Kivland.

This book emerges from my PhD. I would like to thank my supervisors, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Feona Attwood, for their support and encouragement. Thank you, Sheffield Hallam University, for funding this research.

Sections of the text have been previously printed in: The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality edited by Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, Brian McNair.

Chapter 34. The stripper by Alison J Carr, pages 363, 364, 365, 367, and 369. Thank you for kind permission to reprint here.

All of the interviewees who shared their reflections with me shaped this research, thank you: Jazmin Barret, Maria Slowinska, Kitty Enters, Amanda Marquardt, Ashley Fuller, Jacqui Ford, Beatrix Von Bourbon, Felicity Widdrington, and Sam Wood.

Much of this research was inspired by the conversations I had during my MFA at CalArts. Thank you, Alexis Hudgins, Brica Wilcox, Lakshmi Luthra, April Totten, Ali Prosch, Megan Cotts, and Meghann McCrory. Much of what I have written here are the thoughts I have had on the stairwell leaving CalArts. What I have written will be recognisable to Natalie Bookchin, Ellen Birrell, David Bunn, Kaucyila Brooke, Ashley Hunt, Jo Ann Callis, Judy Fiskin, and the late Allan Sekula and Michael Asher thank you for all the encouragement. And thank you, Leslie Dick, for your continuing support and friendship.

All the showgirls I have seen in all the contexts I am grateful for. Something about what you do made me want to write. And without that spark, there would have been no book.

Invaluable friends that keep me going through their support: Katherine Angel, Isabella Streffen, Dale Holmes, Lesley Guy, and Kerstin Honeit.

I am indebted to my family for supporting me through this project. Thank you, Greg Wells (for checking over every idea) and Dennis Carr. And for setting me up in life with a free-ranging curiosity and for being my enabler, I am forever in Sue Carrs debt.

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