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"Keeping the Dancers in Check": The Gendered Organization of Stripping Work in The Lion's Den
Kim Price*
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kim.price{at}uconn.edu.
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Strip clubs have rarely been analyzed in terms of their gendered organization. Instead, the literature on stripping emphasizes interaction-based perspectives that focus on strippers, patrons, and broader macro-structural trends. Although interaction-based perspectives are valuable, they often neglect to consider the context in which these interactions take place, the strip club itself. Such studies also tend to neglect the larger cast of club characters who own, manage, and work. This study explores workplace dynamics in The Lion’s Den, a club featuring nude female dancers who perform primarily for male patrons. Informed by feminist and gendered organizational theory, this research utilizes sociologist Joan Acker’s framework for studying gendered organizations as a way of augmenting interaction-based perspectives. Applying her approach to a strip club, an overtly gendered setting, this research demonstrates the importance of context in facilitating particular gendered processes, stereotypes, and gendered substructures.
First published on April 9, 2008, doi:10.1177/0891243208316518
Gender & Society 2008;22:367.
A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2008
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