Barbara Brownie is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2014), co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015), and has contributed to edited collections including Writing Design (Berg, 2011).

Stripping off: there's more to it than you think. [Brownie] muses on a private gesture done in public, via thoughtful commentary on the relevant literature. ... Revealing.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Private Acts, Public DisplayChapter 2: Narrative Tease: Neo-burlesque and Storytelling through StripteaseChapter 3: ‘Where the Garment Gapes’: The Eroticism of IntermittenceChapter 4: Deviance and Disruption: Streaking, Mooning and FlashingChapter 5: Make Love, Not War: Conflict, Resistance and the Revolutionary BodyChapter 6: Abandoned Clothes: Separating Dress from BodyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Barbara Brownie is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2014), co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015), and has contributed to edited collections including Writing Design (Berg, 2011).

Stripping off: there's more to it than you think. [Brownie] muses on a private gesture done in public, via thoughtful commentary on the relevant literature. ... Revealing.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Private Acts, Public DisplayChapter 2: Narrative Tease: Neo-burlesque and Storytelling through StripteaseChapter 3: ‘Where the Garment Gapes’: The Eroticism of IntermittenceChapter 4: Deviance and Disruption: Streaking, Mooning and FlashingChapter 5: Make Love, Not War: Conflict, Resistance and the Revolutionary BodyChapter 6: Abandoned Clothes: Separating Dress from BodyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Barbara Brownie is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2014), co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015), and has contributed to edited collections including Writing Design (Berg, 2011).

Stripping off: there's more to it than you think. [Brownie] muses on a private gesture done in public, via thoughtful commentary on the relevant literature. ... Revealing.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Private Acts, Public DisplayChapter 2: Narrative Tease: Neo-burlesque and Storytelling through StripteaseChapter 3: ‘Where the Garment Gapes’: The Eroticism of IntermittenceChapter 4: Deviance and Disruption: Streaking, Mooning and FlashingChapter 5: Make Love, Not War: Conflict, Resistance and the Revolutionary BodyChapter 6: Abandoned Clothes: Separating Dress from BodyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex