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

Socpus ID

0345059807 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0345059807

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