Labor Struggle and Solidarity in Live Nude Girls Unite!
an article by Jennifer L Borda (Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire) published in Communication Quarterly Volume 57 Issue 2 (April 2009)
Abstract
This essay examines Live Nude Girls Unite!, a documentary about female exotic dancers’ successful efforts to unionize. The film rhetorically exposes an alternative perspective on the ideological evolution, and contradictions, that represent third-wave feminism by complicating the notion of gender oppression and the responsibilities of coalition politics. Through these women’s analyses of their political situation, the film rhetorically addresses complex issues, including the complicated distinctions between victimiser and victim in contemporary gender politics, women’s appropriation of sex work and capacity for labour activism, and the dominant culture’s attempts to regulate working women’s private and public lives.
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