Erotic Resistance

The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39895-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans women who were instrumental in the city's labor history, as well as its LGBT and sex workers' rights movements. In the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in the city for the first time in the US, though cross-dressing continued to be criminalized. In the 1990s, stripper-artist-activists led the first successful class action lawsuits and efforts to unionize. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa uses visual and performance analysis, historiography, and ethnographic research, including participant observation as both performer and spectator and interviews with legendary burlesquers and strippers, to share this remarkable story.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Gigi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Erotische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Prelude: Field Notes, May 5, 2016, “The Audition
Marathon on Cinco de Mayo,” North Beach, San Francisco 

Introduction 

1. Sensual Knowledge Production: A Feminist Porn Archive and Queer Herstoriography 

2. Erotic Altruism: Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies 

Interlude: Feminist Art Praxis and Autotheory 

3. Erotic Resistance: The 1990s Renaissance of Strip Club Activism 

4. “Stripper-Face” and Performative Heterosexuality 

Conclusion 

Postlude: Final Field Notes, June 10, 2022, “Place-Based Writing,” San Francisco Neighborhoods 157
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, PhD, is an artist-scholar who teaches and writes about art and activism, queer of color critique, erotic performance, and the intersections of mindfulness and creative practice. She holds a doctorate in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University, where she currently leads the LifeWorks Program for Integrative Learning.