Noralee Frankel is the Assistant Director, Women, Minorities, and Teaching at the American Historical Association. Her books include Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi and Break Those Chains at Last: African Americans, 1860-1880 (OUP, 1996). She lives in the Washington, D.C, area.

• Preface: Stripping Gypsy1. Getting Started2. The Burlesque Stage3. Sophisticated Stripper4. Follies with Girlfriends5. To Hell With Louise Hovick 6. Failure as a Dutiful Wife 7. Death, Dies, and Mother 8. Finding the Body 9. Cultured Stripper10. World Fair's Stripper11. The Naked Genius12. Stripping for Labor and the War Effort13. Motherhood14. On the Carnival Circuit15. Nothing to Conceal16. Strip Around the World17. Back Home18. Immortality in Book and Song19. The Most Famous Former Stripper in the World20. Aging Gracefully in PublicNotesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

Frankel's thoroughness is admirable.

Noralee Frankel is the Assistant Director, Women, Minorities, and Teaching at the American Historical Association. Her books include Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi and Break Those Chains at Last: African Americans, 1860-1880 (OUP, 1996). She lives in the Washington, D.C, area.

• Preface: Stripping Gypsy1. Getting Started2. The Burlesque Stage3. Sophisticated Stripper4. Follies with Girlfriends5. To Hell With Louise Hovick 6. Failure as a Dutiful Wife 7. Death, Dies, and Mother 8. Finding the Body 9. Cultured Stripper10. World Fair's Stripper11. The Naked Genius12. Stripping for Labor and the War Effort13. Motherhood14. On the Carnival Circuit15. Nothing to Conceal16. Strip Around the World17. Back Home18. Immortality in Book and Song19. The Most Famous Former Stripper in the World20. Aging Gracefully in PublicNotesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

Frankel's thoroughness is admirable.

Noralee Frankel is the Assistant Director, Women, Minorities, and Teaching at the American Historical Association. Her books include Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi and Break Those Chains at Last: African Americans, 1860-1880 (OUP, 1996). She lives in the Washington, D.C, area.

• Preface: Stripping Gypsy1. Getting Started2. The Burlesque Stage3. Sophisticated Stripper4. Follies with Girlfriends5. To Hell With Louise Hovick 6. Failure as a Dutiful Wife 7. Death, Dies, and Mother 8. Finding the Body 9. Cultured Stripper10. World Fair's Stripper11. The Naked Genius12. Stripping for Labor and the War Effort13. Motherhood14. On the Carnival Circuit15. Nothing to Conceal16. Strip Around the World17. Back Home18. Immortality in Book and Song19. The Most Famous Former Stripper in the World20. Aging Gracefully in PublicNotesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

Frankel's thoroughness is admirable.