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"Work That Body": Precarity and Femininity in the New Economy
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2012 (T216)
- pp. 78-94
- Article
- Additional Information
Adapting elements of exotic dance, burlesque, and circus, fitness pole dancing is taught and practiced globally. Exemplifying post-feminism's putative "freedoms," it represents a scene of precarious labor in the new economy, and evidences the continued purchase of older patriarchal constructions of "women's work" and "precarity" in capitalism.