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Erotic Resistance
The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco
Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa
- 256 pages
- English
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Erotic Resistance
The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco
Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa
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 OtĂĄlvaro-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
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude: Field Notes, May 5, 2016, âThe Audition Marathon on Cinco de Mayo,â North Beach, San Francisco
- Introduction
- 1. Sensual Knowledge Production: A Feminist Porn Archive and Queer Herstoriography
- 2. Erotic Altruism: Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies
- Interlude: Feminist Art Praxis and Autotheory
- 3. Erotic Resistance: The 1990s Renaissance of Strip Club Activism
- 4. âStripper-Faceâ and Performative Heterosexuality
- Conclusion
- Postlude: Final Field Notes, June 10, 2022, âPlace-Based Writing,â San Francisco Neighborhoods
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index