The happy stripper: Pleasures and politics of the new burlesque

The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-232

  Willson, Jacki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b West Nottingham College   (United Kingdom)

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