Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl

Taylor & Francis

Viewing Pleasure and Being a ShowgirlHow Do I Look?\nAuthor(s): Alison Carr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138285422, 978-1138285422\nSynopsis\nDrawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those who watch them, to challenge the narrowness of representations and discussions 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. \n\nAn embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by fe.