Tag: Burlesques

Victorian Classical Burlesques A Critical Anthology


Free Download Laura Monros-Gaspar, "Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology "
English | ISBN: 1472537866 | 2015 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensely popular in its day, the genre was also intensely metatheatrical and carries significance for reception studies, the role and perception of women in Victorian society and the culture of artistic censorship.

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Naked On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques [Audiobook]


Free Download Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXBJHNQT | 2023 | 6 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Fancy Feast
Narrator: Fancy Feast

In Naked, a celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker bares it all, with incisive and hilarious essays about selling, performing, and consuming desire. Fancy Feast draws back the curtain to reveal a world that most denizens of the daytime never see. Part exclusive backstage pass, part long-form literary striptease, these essays confront our culture’s tightly held beliefs-like so many clutched pearls-about sex, communication, power, and the messiness of life on the margins of respectability. In "Dildo Lady," Fancy recounts her time compensating for the failures of the American sex education system while working retail at a sex toy store. In "Doing Yourself," Fancy tackles fatphobia and dating, self-love, and fantasies. In "Yes/No/Maybe," Fancy brings the reader from sex parties to polyamorous relationships as she contrasts the undeniable sexiness of enthusiastic consent with the devastating effects of miscommunication and entitlement. Fancy Feast does this all as a fat woman who makes a living taking off her clothes-a triumphant punch-back at a culture that wants fat people to be self-hating or sexless. Naked is by turns splashy, vulnerable, and always powerful.

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