This review refers to the Hardcover version. Bare has been
released in paperback by Seal Press under the title
Bare: The Naked Truth
About Stripping (Live Girls) |
Bare: On Women, Dancing,
Sex, And Power
By Elisabeth Eaves
pp. 293, New York:
Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover
There’s a touch of irony in reading about the life of a stripper who bares
the most intimate parts of her body but struggles to bare the most
intimate contents of her heart. With her debut book, Bare: On Women,
Dancing, Sex, and Power, former Seattle stripper Elisabeth Eaves learns to
expose herself in a different way: uncovering the seedy world of Seattle’s
strip clubs while revealing her own motivations for working in them.
Eaves’ search for answers to the question "why did I do it?" begins with
her experiences as a child growing up in a culture that projects
irreconcilable images of feminine sexuality and leads fascinatingly to a
discussion about the psychic fragmentation that all women experience in
varying degrees as they attempt to assimilate these conflicting images.
(for entire review) |
