Gypsy

The Art of the Tease

Rachel Shteir, Rachel Shteir

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Yale University Press
23 February 2010

Variety shows, music hall, cabaret; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Icons of America

A revealing portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee, the “Striptease Intellectual” of 1930s burlesque

A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous blend of funny-smart sex symbol with the aura of high culture—she boasted that she liked to read Great Books and listen to classical music while taking off her clothes on-stage—inspired a musical, memoirs, a portrait by Max Ernst, and a species of rose. Gypsy is the first book about Gypsy Rose Lee’s life, fame, and place in America not written by a family member, and it reveals her deep impact on the social and cultural transformations taking shape during her life.

Rachel Shteir, author of the prize-winning Striptease, gives us Gypsy’s story from her arrival in New York in 1931 to her sojourns in Hollywood, her friendships and rivalries with writers and artists, the Sondheim musical, family memoirs that retold her history in divergent ways, and a television biopic currently in the making. With verve, audacity, and native guile, Gypsy Rose Lee moved striptease from the margins of American life to Broadway, Hollywood, and Main Street. Gypsy tells how she did it, and why.

By: Rachel Shteir, Rachel Shteir
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 207mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780300164480
ISBN 10: 0300164483
Series: Icons of America
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 February 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Shteir is associate professor, The Theatre School, DePaul University, and author of Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews for Gypsy: The Art of the Tease

The best introductory book on the magnificent Gypsy Rose Lee, a woman whose name has come to connote the importance of the sexual gimmick and the eroticism of the undelivered promise. -Toni Bentley, author of Sisters and Salome and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir -- Toni Bentley It is simply impossible...not fall in love with Gypsy's tenacity, wit and confounding, beguiling, oh-so-American mix of self-mythology and self-awareness. -Lily Burana, Washington Post -- Lily Burana That [Gypsy's] star rose during the economically catastrophic '30s was no accident: Her demure flirtation-as sly a construct as her breakaway gowns-was not only sexy but wickedly funny, a tonic for the worst of times. --Cathleen Medwick, O, The Oprah Magazine -- O, The Oprah Magazine