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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gyspy Rose Lee
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Author
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Noralee Frankel.
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Publisher
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Oxford
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.1
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ISBN
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9780199754335
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Pages/Publication Date
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300/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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30767
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Description
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Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my—ah—best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography examines the struggles that Lee faced in making a lucrative and unconventional career for herself while maintaining a sense of dignity and social value. In all ways, Lee trafficked in the incongruous: she was at once sex object, intellectual, and activist. In addition to her highly successful strip-tease act and film career, she published two mystery novels and a memoir, wrote two plays, and showed her original artwork in Peggy Guggenheim's gallery. As photographer Arnold Newman said, "She was a lady, a brilliant, bright woman who was the friend of many writers and intellectuals." Frankel places Lee's life in social and political context while detailing a fascinating entertainment career, in which Lee created and re-created her own identity to fit changing times.
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