Striptease stands up to other Hiassen classics. I have since reread it more than once since then, and it still cracks me up. This was my first read of his many years ago. Wacky and eccectric characters pervade a poor working stripper's life as she tries to raise her kid. Some of that audio is presented in this video. But, do not resist Everything that has made Hiaasen is in Striptease. The show includes audio of Meiselas’s original recordings made during this project. The women look at it as being revolutionary – for the first time in their lives to say, ‘I’ve got you eating out of the palm of my hand.'”Ī retrospective of Meiselas’s career opens at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in February 2018. She’s got to control them, keep them back, and all she has is her wits and talents. The men depend on you – to entertain them and to bring in money for them.Īnd when they come in, it’s up to the girl. “Being a stripper is as close to being in a man’s world as you can be,” says Lena. A study of the role of women in society in the 1970s through the microcosm of the dying traveling ‘girl show’ industry, Meiselas’s Carnival Strippers brings to the fore differing views on women, sex, society, and class, exploring the sometimes hard-to-define line between independence and exploitation.
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