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G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire. Katherine Frank. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
Katherine Frank, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the College of the Atlantic, has produced an intriguing book on an unusual topic: strip clubs and their visitors. Frank's ethnography is based on her experiences working as a table dancer at various strip clubs in a Southern city she calls Laurelton. She investigates why men return even when they know they cannot have, or do not desire, sexual relations with the dancers.
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