Bernadette Barton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernadette Barton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernadette |
| FAMILY NAME | Barton |
| SIGNATURE | BARTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Morehead State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Confidence Culture
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era
Power and Stripping
For Better, For Worse: The Ethics of Divorce After Marriage Equality. By Natalie E. Williams. Lanham
Stripped, 2nd Edition: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers
What kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lap dancing, table dancing, topless only, and peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers. Originally published in 2006, the product of years of first-hand research in strip clubs around the country, Stripped is a classic portrait of what it’s like for those who …
Feminine Power: A New Articulation
Consider the messages that Western, patriarchal cultures create and disseminate about femininity: that it is weak, passive, deceitful, and manipulative. Systems of male domination devalue femininity relative to hegemonic masculinity by framing feminine attributes as opposite and in service to men and masculinity, and naturalising these characteristics to female and feminine bodies. Much gender studies scholarship critiques the constraints of femi…
Not in our community: Queer women challenge religious homophobia in rural Kentucky
Not in my backyard" (NIMBY) movements emerge when a social or political event spurs opposition from local residents. Much research on NIMBY movements concentrates on local residents' efforts to defend their community from unwanted "outsiders" or elements, such as a waste incinerator or sex offenders. Little is written on how NIMBY activism can redefine a place to be more inclusive of sexual minorities and supportive of progressive social initiati…
Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves
Andro-privilege, raunch culture, and stripping
This study notes a rising number of female customers at heterosexual strip bars and explores the reasons for this change. Drawing methodologically on audio-taped interviews with strip club employees and 150 hours of observation in strip bars, we explore the dynamics of raunch culture—a hypersexualized climate—and andro-privilege, a new concept in feminist theory that we originate here. Patriarchal cultures condition members to preference practice…
Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment: A Long-Term Sociological Perspective
God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right
How Like Perceives Like: "Gay People on "Gaydar
When lacking explicit knowledge of someone's sexual orientation, gay people commonly assess the likelihood that another is gay using their "gaydar." The term gaydar is a playful mix of the word gay with radar, suggesting that one can sense, intuit, or perceive some set of characteristics in another that signal a shared minority status. While commonly mentioned, the exact criteria a gay person uses when employing their gaydar are little discussed.…
My Auto/Ethnographic Dilemma: Who Owns the Story
"Abomination"-Life as a Bible Belt Gay
Drawing on observation, autoethnography, and audio-taped interviews, this article explores the religious backgrounds and experiences of Bible Belt gays. In the Bible Belt, Christianity is not confined to Sunday worship. Christian crosses, messages, paraphernalia, music, news, and attitudes permeate everyday settings. Consequently, Christian fundamentalist dogma about homosexuality-that homosexuals are bad, diseased, perverse, sinful, other, and i…
Spirituality and Stripping: Exotic Dancers Narrate the Body Ekstasis
How does it feel to dance naked for money? Drawing on seven audio-taped interviews, this article examines how exotic dancers use the language of “spirituality” as a narrative resource. We suggest that exotic dancers who describe their time onstage as spiritual, at least temporarily, experience “flow” while dancing. Further, we argue that dancers' descriptions of flow and peak experiences represent what Mead (1934:280) referred to as a “fusion of …
Managing the Toll of Stripping: Boundary Setting among Exotic Dancers
This article examines three psychospatial boundary-setting strategies exotic dancers rely on to manage the difficulties of working in strip bars: what the author elaborates as the "toll" of stripping. These include setting personal rules, "othering" of fellow performers, and creating a dancer persona. Dancers set rules to personally determine the amount of sexual and emotional contact they are willing to have with customers to prevent workplace e…
Male fantasies about lesbian desire: A review of Spike Lee’s film She hate me
The House on Transcript Avenue
The House on Transcript Avenue" offers, in the style of If These Walls Could Talk, a true account of the parade of lesbian couples, friends, and ex-lovers through one house over a 13-year period. This humorous anecdotal tale illustrates the hilariously enmeshed lives of lesbian lovers, friends, and ex-lovers
Dancing on the Möbius Strip: Challenging the Sex War Paradigm
The feminist sex wars have been characterized by debates between radical feminists and sex radical feminists about women's experiences of empowerment versus oppression in the sex industry. Based on a qualitative study of the experiences of exotic dancers, this article introduces a new theoretical paradigm to the feminist sex wars that values the contributions of both sex radicals and radical feminists. It articulates a twofold temporal dimension …
Queer desire in the sex industry
"Abomination"-Life as a Bible Belt Gay
Drawing on observation, autoethnography, and audio-taped interviews, this article explores the religious backgrounds and experiences of Bible Belt gays. In the Bible Belt, Christianity is not confined to Sunday worship. Christian crosses, messages, paraphernalia, music, news, and attitudes permeate everyday settings. Consequently, Christian fundamentalist dogma about homosexuality-that homosexuals are bad, diseased, perverse, sinful, other, and i…
Dancing on the Möbius Strip: Challenging the Sex War Paradigm
The feminist sex wars have been characterized by debates between radical feminists and sex radical feminists about women's experiences of empowerment versus oppression in the sex industry. Based on a qualitative study of the experiences of exotic dancers, this article introduces a new theoretical paradigm to the feminist sex wars that values the contributions of both sex radicals and radical feminists. It articulates a twofold temporal dimension …
My Auto/Ethnographic Dilemma: Who Owns the Story
Managing the Toll of Stripping: Boundary Setting among Exotic Dancers
This article examines three psychospatial boundary-setting strategies exotic dancers rely on to manage the difficulties of working in strip bars: what the author elaborates as the "toll" of stripping. These include setting personal rules, "othering" of fellow performers, and creating a dancer persona. Dancers set rules to personally determine the amount of sexual and emotional contact they are willing to have with customers to prevent workplace e…
Queer desire in the sex industry
Spirituality and Stripping: Exotic Dancers Narrate the Body Ekstasis
How does it feel to dance naked for money? Drawing on seven audio-taped interviews, this article examines how exotic dancers use the language of “spirituality” as a narrative resource. We suggest that exotic dancers who describe their time onstage as spiritual, at least temporarily, experience “flow” while dancing. Further, we argue that dancers' descriptions of flow and peak experiences represent what Mead (1934:280) referred to as a “fusion of …
How Like Perceives Like: "Gay People on "Gaydar
When lacking explicit knowledge of someone's sexual orientation, gay people commonly assess the likelihood that another is gay using their "gaydar." The term gaydar is a playful mix of the word gay with radar, suggesting that one can sense, intuit, or perceive some set of characteristics in another that signal a shared minority status. While commonly mentioned, the exact criteria a gay person uses when employing their gaydar are little discussed.…
Feminine Power: A New Articulation
Consider the messages that Western, patriarchal cultures create and disseminate about femininity: that it is weak, passive, deceitful, and manipulative. Systems of male domination devalue femininity relative to hegemonic masculinity by framing feminine attributes as opposite and in service to men and masculinity, and naturalising these characteristics to female and feminine bodies. Much gender studies scholarship critiques the constraints of femi…
Not in our community: Queer women challenge religious homophobia in rural Kentucky
Not in my backyard" (NIMBY) movements emerge when a social or political event spurs opposition from local residents. Much research on NIMBY movements concentrates on local residents' efforts to defend their community from unwanted "outsiders" or elements, such as a waste incinerator or sex offenders. Little is written on how NIMBY activism can redefine a place to be more inclusive of sexual minorities and supportive of progressive social initiati…
Queer desire in the sex industry
Dancing on the Möbius Strip: Challenging the Sex War Paradigm
The feminist sex wars have been characterized by debates between radical feminists and sex radical feminists about women's experiences of empowerment versus oppression in the sex industry. Based on a qualitative study of the experiences of exotic dancers, this article introduces a new theoretical paradigm to the feminist sex wars that values the contributions of both sex radicals and radical feminists. It articulates a twofold temporal dimension …
The House on Transcript Avenue
The House on Transcript Avenue" offers, in the style of If These Walls Could Talk, a true account of the parade of lesbian couples, friends, and ex-lovers through one house over a 13-year period. This humorous anecdotal tale illustrates the hilariously enmeshed lives of lesbian lovers, friends, and ex-lovers
Male fantasies about lesbian desire: A review of Spike Lee’s film She hate me
Managing the Toll of Stripping: Boundary Setting among Exotic Dancers
This article examines three psychospatial boundary-setting strategies exotic dancers rely on to manage the difficulties of working in strip bars: what the author elaborates as the "toll" of stripping. These include setting personal rules, "othering" of fellow performers, and creating a dancer persona. Dancers set rules to personally determine the amount of sexual and emotional contact they are willing to have with customers to prevent workplace e…
"Abomination"-Life as a Bible Belt Gay
Drawing on observation, autoethnography, and audio-taped interviews, this article explores the religious backgrounds and experiences of Bible Belt gays. In the Bible Belt, Christianity is not confined to Sunday worship. Christian crosses, messages, paraphernalia, music, news, and attitudes permeate everyday settings. Consequently, Christian fundamentalist dogma about homosexuality-that homosexuals are bad, diseased, perverse, sinful, other, and i…
Spirituality and Stripping: Exotic Dancers Narrate the Body Ekstasis
How does it feel to dance naked for money? Drawing on seven audio-taped interviews, this article examines how exotic dancers use the language of “spirituality” as a narrative resource. We suggest that exotic dancers who describe their time onstage as spiritual, at least temporarily, experience “flow” while dancing. Further, we argue that dancers' descriptions of flow and peak experiences represent what Mead (1934:280) referred to as a “fusion of …
My Auto/Ethnographic Dilemma: Who Owns the Story
How Like Perceives Like: "Gay People on "Gaydar
When lacking explicit knowledge of someone's sexual orientation, gay people commonly assess the likelihood that another is gay using their "gaydar." The term gaydar is a playful mix of the word gay with radar, suggesting that one can sense, intuit, or perceive some set of characteristics in another that signal a shared minority status. While commonly mentioned, the exact criteria a gay person uses when employing their gaydar are little discussed.…
God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right
Andro-privilege, raunch culture, and stripping
This study notes a rising number of female customers at heterosexual strip bars and explores the reasons for this change. Drawing methodologically on audio-taped interviews with strip club employees and 150 hours of observation in strip bars, we explore the dynamics of raunch culture—a hypersexualized climate—and andro-privilege, a new concept in feminist theory that we originate here. Patriarchal cultures condition members to preference practice…
Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment: A Long-Term Sociological Perspective
Not in our community: Queer women challenge religious homophobia in rural Kentucky
Not in my backyard" (NIMBY) movements emerge when a social or political event spurs opposition from local residents. Much research on NIMBY movements concentrates on local residents' efforts to defend their community from unwanted "outsiders" or elements, such as a waste incinerator or sex offenders. Little is written on how NIMBY activism can redefine a place to be more inclusive of sexual minorities and supportive of progressive social initiati…
Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves
Stripped, 2nd Edition: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers
What kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lap dancing, table dancing, topless only, and peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers. Originally published in 2006, the product of years of first-hand research in strip clubs around the country, Stripped is a classic portrait of what it’s like for those who …
Feminine Power: A New Articulation
Consider the messages that Western, patriarchal cultures create and disseminate about femininity: that it is weak, passive, deceitful, and manipulative. Systems of male domination devalue femininity relative to hegemonic masculinity by framing feminine attributes as opposite and in service to men and masculinity, and naturalising these characteristics to female and feminine bodies. Much gender studies scholarship critiques the constraints of femi…
For Better, For Worse: The Ethics of Divorce After Marriage Equality. By Natalie E. Williams. Lanham
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era
Power and Stripping
Confidence Culture
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works)