Jacki Willson: 2 books
Being Gorgeous
Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play – a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first...
The Happy Stripper
Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artistes such as Dita von Teese and Catherine d'Lish,...