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Strip: The Making of a Feminist Paperback – June 29, 2018

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4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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The exotic dancer exists in popular culture most often as scenery. When she is allowed to speak, she does so to the male protagonist and is either the conniving woman attempting to relieve the hero of the cash in his wallet, or fallen woman in need of rescue. She is rarely named, existing only as a backdrop, red lights flashing on pliant flesh like a crime scene. She is white, blonde, slim, with large breasts. She is stripper Barbie, plastic porn. Strip brings nuance to a subject that is often overlooked, ignored, or otherwise silenced. To all readers of human culture interested in the anthropology of what it means to be a sex object in modern America, this book is about much more than stripping. It argues that gentlemen’s clubs are a microcosm that distills the female experience of patriarchal culture. On the body of woman is written male desire. In the eyes of woman, gazing at the male, culture can truly be seen.
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    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Changemakers Books
  4. Publication date
    June 29, 2018
  5. Dimensions
    5.27 x 0.44 x 8.51 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1785357379
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1785357374
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Catlyn Ladd performed in gentleman's clubs for five years while pursuing an education. She now works as a college professor teaching philosophy, religion, and women's studies. She lives in Colorado, USA.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Changemakers Books (June 29, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1785357379
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1785357374
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.27 x 0.44 x 8.51 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Catlyn Ladd loves alliteration, the sibilant slip of similar sounds. She blends metaphors and archetypes from the shadow self, illuminating the monsters that gestate there. Her fiction has been published in a number of anthologies including those from Black Hare Press, Dark Lit Press, and Skywatcher Press. Her first novel is forthcoming. Her nonfiction book, Strip: The Making of a Feminist, is published by Changemakers, an imprint of John Hunt. She worked as a stripper to pay for her education and is now a professor of philosophy, religion, and women and gender studies. She lives with her partner and cats in Colorado. When not reading, writing, or teaching, she loves motorcycling, cooking, and napping. She can be found at www.catlynladd.com.

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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Michelle Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Balanced Insights
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024
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Not only was this an easy, fun read; I also found it uncommonly balanced in its viewpoints. Life is complex and so are the answers. My favorite authors have been the ones that help me think. They propose excellent questions and leave me to decide the answers. Dr. Ladd does this expertly. Read it and see!
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Chelsey
5.0 out of 5 stars An insightful account of the author's experience
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018
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Catlyn Ladd's Strip: The Making of a Feminist, is a unique and insightful journey through the author's time as a stripper while pursuing an education. She openly shares her stories and reflects on them from her current perspective as an academic almost 20 years later. It is a very self-aware exploration into the world of sex work as seen through her eyes as a white woman from an educated background. It's honest and unapologetic. I enjoyed her way of describing the clubs, the clients, her co-workers, and mostly her detailed and vivid description of how it all made her feel. Her storytelling technique brings the reader into her skin to feel her seductive empowerment. It also educates and informs on the research that has been done on the industry, making a point to challenge what has been published so far. It's a great read, with rich stories and a detailed insight into Ladd as a feminist.
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Ms. DONNA GIBBS
5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable book about the world of stripping
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018
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I read this book in 2 days and could not put it down. I hated to see it end. An honest view of the world in strip clubs for men. This is intelligently written by a lady that started stripping to get thru college. I have always admired women that do this for a living. I don't know how I was lucky enough to find this book....but I am grateful that somehow I found it on Amazon. Looking forward to anything that she writes. I hope she makes big $$$ being a professor.... I am guessing it was much more lucrative being a stripper.
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Kismet Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend, a great discussion starter. Would make for a fun book club pick.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
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Catlyn is a compelling story teller, and shares tales from all sorts of different aspects of working in strip clubs, which are all fascinating. I like the structure of the book as three sections with several stories, followed by a chapter diving into the academic literature and prior research involving exotic dancers, with its strengths and shortcomings laid bare. The book is well balanced in sharing her personal experiences as well as her keen retrospective academic eye. I'm still conflicted in my thoughts and feelings toward this industry, but this book gave me a lot to think about on all sides, as all great books do!
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Jake
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look inside this world
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018
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An interesting look inside this world. She is a very good storyteller, a keen participant and server, and it adds a lot of
credibility. The societal insides can be a little dry and obvious but they take up little space in the book.
She mostly sticks with storytelling and she does that well.
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Courtney Graeff
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read insight! Incredible book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019
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This is an incredible insight to a world so often misunderstood. Keenan pulls back the veil and allows the reader to see the humans so often over looked or judged. The scholarship offered to support the narrative is insightful, well-researched, and fulfilling. Highly recommend this book.
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Lorri
5.0 out of 5 stars A stiletto-healed kick to the patriarchy!
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2020
Stepping onto the stage with Catlyn Ladd as our guide to stripping is exhilarating, entertaining, and provocative, but the real pleasure is seeing this activity through the lens of a feminist academic. Though many astute points are weaved into the recounting of 5 years of taking off her clothes under the watchful stares of (mostly) men, Dr. Ladd’s position, overlooked by other authors on the subject, posits that stripping can allow a woman to find and nurture the power she possesses without causing others to lose or give their power to her. Ladd’s insight on this point feels ground-shifting - generating a more complex view of sex workers and what feminism means for them as compared to the binary scope of predecessor standpoints.
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Tim Ward
5.0 out of 5 stars When the naked women on stage transforms from object into observer
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018
What liked best in this book was how the author inverts the usual dynamic of a strip club - the naked woman on stage looks out at the men, describes what she sees, and tells their stories. It’s unnerving - we men are used to the privilege of looking, objectifying. But guess what? The dancers look back. Perhaps not all of them observe with such a keen eye and telling mind. What’s more, the author tells the varied stories of the other dancers - some disturbing, as they get breast enhancement surgery to boost their incomes and self esteem - and some dispicable: the woman who bilks a customer in love for thousands of dollars and then leaves town. Most of all, we get the story of a bright young woman who takes this seedy environment where women are so often exploited, and turns it to her own purpose, to rid herself of feelings of inferiority and feel the power of men ready to worship at her feet as an erotic goddess. I loved it.
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Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
5.0 out of 5 stars Humanizing and Unapologetic
Reviewed in Canada on July 7, 2018
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Catlyn Ladd has written the sex worker memoir that has needed to be written for many years now. Most memoirs written by current or former sex workers tend to paint the life either defensively or with regret. Ladd, however, tells it like it is, with all its empowering moments as well as those that feel a little less so, all of them contributing to Ladd's growing feminist consciousness. I particularly enjoyed her insights into how dancing helped her to reclaim her body. In this memoir, Ladd performs the ultimate feminist act -she claims her past proudly, without shame, and sees it for the powerful shaping force it is.
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