Erotic Resistance
eBook - ePub

Erotic Resistance

The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Erotic Resistance

The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco

About this book

Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans women who were instrumental in the city's labor history, as well as its LGBT and sex workers' rights movements. In the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in the city for the first time in the US, though cross-dressing continued to be criminalized. In the 1990s, stripper-artist-activists led the first successful class action lawsuits and efforts to unionize.Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa uses visual and performance analysis, historiography, and ethnographic research, including participant observation as both performer and spectator and interviews with legendary burlesquers and strippers, to share this remarkable story.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prelude: Field Notes, May 5, 2016, “The Audition Marathon on Cinco de Mayo,” North Beach, San Francisco
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Sensual Knowledge Production: A Feminist Porn Archive and Queer Herstoriography
  10. 2. Erotic Altruism: Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies
  11. Interlude: Feminist Art Praxis and Autotheory
  12. 3. Erotic Resistance: The 1990s Renaissance of Strip Club Activism
  13. 4. “Stripper-Face” and Performative Heterosexuality
  14. Conclusion
  15. Postlude: Final Field Notes, June 10, 2022, “Place-Based Writing,” San Francisco Neighborhoods
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index