The Case of the Sexy Jewess : Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture.
The sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn. Bringing sexiness together with race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess looks at embodied joke-work that is most often, but not always meant to be funny.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn. Bringing sexiness together with race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess looks at embodied joke-work that is most often, but not always meant to be funny. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190624217 0190624213 9780190624231 019062423X 9780190624224 0190624221 |