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Bourbon Street, B-Drinking, and the Sexual Economy of Tourism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society SeriesPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498531337
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bourbon Street, B-Drinking, and the Sexual Economy of TourismDDC classification:
  • 338.4/7910976335
LOC classification:
  • G155.U6 .D466 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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