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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Philip Pilkington < pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry to go to fundamentals, but...
>
> I remember running into something with a sort of similar argument to this a
> while ago. It was an essay by an American (female) sociologist who actually
> became a stripper for a while. What really struck me was not so much the
> "overturning of morality" implicit in the essay (which seems to correlate
> with this study; I haven't read it, but this seems to be the angle it goes
> from) - that was, by contemporary hyper-sexual standards rather
> unimpressive
> - what really struck me was the conclusion of the author. She figured - and
> again, if I understand correctly, this is essentially the point this author
> is trying to make - that the women in these clubs held a certain amount of
> power over the customers (of course the violent criminals running most of
> these rackets weren't mentioned in the study I read, nor was the connection
> between hard drug/alcohol-dependency and the sex industry).
>
> I mean, has contemporary feminism really come to this? From the
> construtivism of De Beauvoir and Kristeva to an extremely cynical variety
> of
> power politics.
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