By Jacki Willson
The subject is sizzling, the identify tempting, and the textual content just a little dense. writer takes an in-depth educational examine the artwork of burlesque with plenty of proof and little tittilation. attention-grabbing learn for the socialogically- or psychologically-interested.
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In order to understand how this figurehead of burlesque impacts on our present cultural situation it is first necessary to plot in greater depth the economic, political, social and cultural func24 1. Burlesque tion, and impact of burlesque as a form of entertainment and as a business. Democratic excesses The peak of burlesque’s emergence into middle-class theatres occurred exactly in the years when depression was in its deepest trough. The key periods of 1868–73 and the late 1920s and early 1930s marked the years of boom and bust that moved the USA in and out of the nadir of the Long Depression in 1873 and the Great Depression in 1933.
The problem that is earnestly forwarded is that of the seductive ‘illegimate’ power of female appearance – a woman’s sex appeal. Wollstonecraft chides men for keeping women in a childish, undeveloped state whereby the only sense of power they can obtain comes through ‘the arbitrary power of beauty’. 11 Simone de Beauvoir, another key feminist thinker, continued this strain of thought a century and a half later in The Second Sex (1949). This work asserts that if all women think about, talk about, and act on is their beauty and their physical appeal, they then have no time to develop their personalities, their intellect and their spiritual qualities.
The subversion of the piece rests on this combination of satire and sexiness. The tradition of the unruly woman might theoretically be rooted in Natalie Zemon Davis’ concept of the ‘woman on top’, identified in her book Society and Culture in Early Modern France (1975). 43 However, the unruly woman becomes utterly unmanageable when she as a subject becomes the author of her desire, of her own spectacle. 44 By controlling her own spectacle as sexualized, feminized and ‘low’, and as an immigrant or foreign ‘other’, the burlesque performer powerfully makes transparent deeper power imbalances, instabilities and anxieties at play in society at large.