Recommended Reading

Alexander, H.M. Strip Tease: The Vanished Art of Burlesque.
New York: Knight Publishers, 1938.

Allen, Robert C. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture.
    Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Corio, Ann. This Was Burlesque. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968.

Jarrett, Judith Lynn. Stripping in Time: A History of Exotic Dancing.
    San Francisco: Pandora, 1997.

Pullen, Kirsten. Actresses and Whores: On Stage and In Society.
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Shteir, Rachel. Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show.
    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Baldwin, Michelle. Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind.
Denver: Speck Press, 2004.

Bosse, Katharina. New Burlesque. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Burana, Lily. Strip City. New York: Hyperion, 2001.

Buszek, Maria Elena. Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture.
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Glasscock, Jessica. Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight.
    New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.

Goldwyn, Liz. Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens.
    New York: Regan Books, 2006.

Kibler, M. Allison. Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville.
    Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Mizejewski, Linda. Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema.
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.

Sobel, Bernard. Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days.
    New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.

Stencell, A.W. Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind.
    Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.

Von Teese, Dita. Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese.
    New York: Regan Books, 2006.