Bourbon Street, b-drinking, and the sexual economy of tourism [electronic resource] / Angela R. Demovic.

Combining historic and ethnographic research, Angela R. Demovic reveals the intersection of alcohol sales and stripteasing in the French Quarter. She 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 ec...

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Main Author: Demovic, Angela R. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society
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Format: Electronic eBook

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505 0 |a Intro; Contents; Entering "The Field"; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Why B-drinking Works; 2 B-girls in Public Discourses; 3 Finding B-girls in the Ideoscape; 4 The Cultural Geography of Power and B-drinking in the 1990s; 5 Understanding the Perspectives of B-girls at the Turn of the Century; 6 Dangers; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author 
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