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Letting It All Hang Out: Mardi Gras Performances Live and on Video
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 51, Number 2 (T 194), Summer 2007
- pp. 76-93
- Article
- Additional Information
Mayer examines Mardi Gras as a commodified spectacle of female nudity in live performance, softcore video, and tourism. Mardi Gras brings together entrepreneurs and consumers in ways that reveal gender, race, and class relations not only in today's U.S. but also in America's consumption of its global Others.