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"Price-Glynn contrasts the aspirations of the strippers with the club's design, rules, expectations, and practices, all of which served to exploit their labor. She argues that without listening to sex workers and addressing their abuse and lack of power, feminists will never take the real battle- the one against structural oppression- to the ring."-Ms. Magazine, "Price-Glynn has a real knack for what anthropologists and sociologists call 'thick description, ' thereby ably transporting readers into the setting of this particular sexual subculture."-"CHOICE", -J.R. Mitrano, "Choice Magazine" "Reads like a novel with a detailed cast of characters! With stripper poles an increasingly ubiquitous fixture in the media, there remains surprisingly little scholarship written about the day-to-day lives of people working in strip bars. Price-Glynn reveals the grit beneath the pop-video cliche in Strip Club, offering the reader an insider's gaze on the employees of the Lion's Den. Strip Club exposes a taken for granted sexism we need to be reminded of in our Girls Gone Wild culture." -Bernadette Barton, author of "Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers" "The second I entered The Lion's Den, passing the doorman through darkened hallways toward a parquet dancing stage, Price-Glynn's rich description brought me into the dilapidated and ironically profitable (for some) world of the strip club. Her deeply affecting observations make us keenly aware of the social practices that perpetuate gross inequalities. Her ethnography is both brutally honest, and sociologically sophisticated in its examination of both the fragility and tenacity of social rankings based on gender, sex, and social class." -Lisa Jean Moore, co-editor of "The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings"

"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country." --Roger Shattuck, Boston University The Proustian Quest is the first full-length study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. In Remembrance of Things Past, Proust describes how the machines of transportation and communication transformed fashion, social mores, time-space perception, and the understanding of the laws of nature. Concentrating on the motif of speed, Carter establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity.