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5 If Looks Could Kill: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies
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Published:January 2011
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This chapter examines striptease as a symbolic act of gender, revenge, and power negotiation by focusing on such traditionally derided film genres as erotic thrillers, straight-to-video action, and pornography in which strippers are presented as defiant and self-rescuing heroines. It argues that in such films, the power of the male gaze is destabilized or, at least, that the privilege associated with the assumed right to look at exposed female bodies is destabilized. It shows that even women who are fully open for male inspection actually wield more concrete power than the men looking at them. Yet it also suggests that female strippers have very little control. Finally, it demonstrates how their attractiveness and sexual objectification allow women and their sexuality to be consumed by men in the most conventional gendered form in a relatively guilt-free manner.
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