A review by martha_is_reading
Strip: The Making of a Feminist by Catlyn Ladd

4.0

This was such an interesting book! Catlyn Ladd was an exotic dancer for five years while studying for her masters degree, and here she offers fascinating insight into the industry from both a personal and an academic perspective. This is an intersectional, sex-positive book that acknowledges the grey areas - is exotic dancing empowering or demeaning? Can it be both?

There were moments where I wished for more depth, but Ladd herself admits that while she is writing this retrospectively based on journals written at the time, it wasn't intentional ethnographic investigation. Regardless, it's an excellent book, and I'd highly recommend it.

Thank you to Changemakers & Netgalley for providing an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review