@article{ref1,
title="Dancing on the Möbius Strip: Challenging the Sex War Paradigm",
journal="Gender and society",
year="2002",
author="Barton, Bernadette",
volume="16",
number="5",
pages="585-602",
abstract="The feminist sex wars have been characterized by debates between radical feminists and sex radical feminists about women's experiences of empowerment versus oppression in the sex industry. Based on a qualitative study of the experiences of exotic dancers, this article introduces a new theoretical paradigm to the feminist sex wars that values the contributions of both sex radicals and radical feminists. It articulates a twofold temporal dimension of sex workers' experiences: (1) how women's feelings of pleasure and empowerment gradually decline over time and (2) how good and bad experiences rapidly transform into their opposites over the course of a single evening, making the strip bar a volatile and unsettling space for performers.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-2432",
doi="10.1177/089124302236987",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124302236987"
}