Rachel Shteir

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.”

Striptease: the Untold History of the Girlie Show is the first complete history of striptease. Treating striptease as a legitimate American art form, it narrates the story of the genre from the Jazz Age to the sexual revolution.