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Girl, Undressed : On Stripping in New York City by Ruth Fowler (2009, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143115650

ISBN-139780143115656

eBay Product ID (ePID)71647832

Product Key Features

Book TitleGirl, Undressed : on Stripping in New York City

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicWomen, Emigration & Immigration, Personal Memoirs

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRuth Fowler

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Reviews" Excellent . . . Fowler's excoriating narrative quite effectively undermines perceptions of sex work as a viable form of postmodern female empowerment." - The Guardian (London) " Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale." - Booklist (starred), " Excellent . . . Fowler's excoriating narrative quite effectively undermines perceptions of sex work as a viable form of postmodern female empowerment." -The Guardian(London) " Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale." -Booklist(starred), Excellent . . . Fowler’s excoriating narrative quite effectively undermines perceptions of sex work as a viable form of postmodern female empowerment.” —The Guardian(London) Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale.” —Booklist(starred), " Excellent . . . Fowler''s excoriating narrative quite effectively undermines perceptions of sex work as a viable form of postmodern female empowerment." - The Guardian (London) " Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale." - Booklist (starred)

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

SynopsisA young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex industry Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But getting a work visa in post-9/11 America proves to be tricky. It doesn't take long for funds and incentive to run out-sending Fowler to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly of strip clubs and the sex trade, where as her alter ego "Mimi" she works as a dancer for more than two years. Both raw and shocking, Girl, Undressed tells the harrowing story of her descent into darkness, the young and wealthy Eton-educated Englishman with whom she perilously falls in love, and her revelatory journey back to herself.