Title
Exotic Dancing And The Negotiation Of Identity: The Multiple Uses Of Body Technologies
Keywords
Body; Body technology; Exotic dancing; Gender; Identity
Abstract
This study investigates the multiple uses of body technologies by female exotic dancers and the relationship to dancers' negotiations of identity. Using ethnographic methods, primarily in-depth interviews, this article probes the ways that dancers alter their bodies to earn money while also attempting to re-create different meanings through their bodies. In fact, the women use body technologies for multiple purposes but make choices about their bodies in a context that rewards them for only sexualized one-dimensional meanings. Body technologies both hinder and help the attempts these women make to manage subsequent identity complications and are engaged on different levels. This article highlights the ways that body technologies reflect the dancers' struggles concerning body and identity.
Publication Date
12-1-2003
Publication Title
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Volume
32
Issue
6
Number of Pages
643-669
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241603257595
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
0345059807 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0345059807
STARS Citation
Wesely, Jennifer K., "Exotic Dancing And The Negotiation Of Identity: The Multiple Uses Of Body Technologies" (2003). Scopus Export 2000s. 1482.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/1482