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Doing Gender, Doing Class

The Performance of Sexuality in Exotic Dance Clubs

Mary Nell Trautner

University of Arizona

Organizations are not only gendered; they are also classed—that is, they articulate ideas and presentations of gender that are mediated by class position. This article pursues the idea of organizations as gendered and classed by means of a comparative ethnographic analysis of the performance of sexuality in four exotic dance clubs in the Southwestern United States. Strip clubs construct sexuality to be consistent with client class norms and assumptions and with how the clubs and dancers think working-class or middle-class sexuality should be expressed. Class differences are represented as sexual differences in very concrete ways: the appearance of dancers and other staff, dancing and performance styles, and interactions that take place between dancers and customers.

Key Words: organizational culture • sexuality • social class • sex work

Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 6, 771-788 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243205277253
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