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Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry, by Siobhan Brooks. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010. 125pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 9781438432144.
The topic of stripping has become a key area in deviance studies, and Siobhan Brooks has significantly added to the existing literature with her book Unequal Desires. In this work, Brooks examines an often overlooked aspect regarding stripping, namely the presence of racial and sexual hierarchies. She argues that these hierarchies are present within all desire industries and are similar to existing hierarchies within U.S. institutions. Brooks draws on thirty-one in-depth interviews, observations within...