Rachel Shteir

Events

March 27 7 pm Women and Children First Bookstore in Chicago

April 7 The Arts Club of Chicago --Members Only!

April 16 Museum of Sex, 5th Avenue and 17th St


April 18 3 pm New York Library for the Performing Arts "Striptease Was Her Best Disguise"

June 6-7 Chicago Tribune Printer's Row Literary Fest exact date, time TBA


Selected Works

Non-fiction
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease
The first biography of Gypsy not written by a member of her family.
Striptease:
the Untold History of the Girlie Show

In the New Yorker, Francine du Plessix Gray called it a “landmark.” In the Washington Post, Elaine Showalter wrote that Striptease was both “scholarly” and entertaining” and in the New Republic, Toni Bentley lauded it as “a genuine contribution to the history of American culture.” In her remarks at the George Freedley awards ceremony, Margo Jefferson described Striptease as “an important cultural and social history.”

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