Rachel Shteir

Works

Gypsy: The Art of the Tease
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease is a book about striptease and about the greatest American performer of the genre.

Striptease:
the Untold History of the Girlie Show
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.

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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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