Bourbon Street, B-Drinking, and the Sexual Economy of Tourism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society Series .
- The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society Series .
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.
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.