Angela R. Demovic

Bourbon Street, B-Drinking, and the Sexual Economy of Tourism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining historic and ethnographic research, Angela R. Demovic reveals the intersection of alcohol sales and stripteasing in the French Quarter. Demovic demonstrates how B-drinkers-workers hired by bar owners to flirt with patrons who buy them drinks-maintain agency and create community in a tourism economy.

Produktdetails

• The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781498531320
• ISBN-10: 1498531326
• Artikelnr.: 51144909

Autorenporträt

Angela R. Demovic was assistant professor at Tulane University, Louisiana State University, and Wichita State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Why B
drinking Works: A Semiotics of Seduction and Drinking Chapter 2: B
girls in Public Discourses: A Heritage Approach to Bourbon Street Chapter 3: Finding B
girls in the Ideoscape: Legally Defining the B
girl Chapter 4: The Cultural Geography of Power and B
drinking in the 1990s Chapter 5: Understanding the Perspectives of B
girls at the Turn of the Century Chapter 6: Dangers