Angela R. Demovic was assistant professor at Tulane University, Louisiana State University, and Wichita State University.

The book is a standout because it is a good read, not a mean feat in anthropological ethnographic writing today. Readers will not only want to know more about the lives of the women being chronicled but also will be challenged in more profound ways. . . In short, this is not a feel-good book to make the reader comfortable with the theories that they have already adopted, but it is a “think-good” book. . . The book deserves particular attention in current anthropology because of its balanced portrait of lives in relative imbalance, like so many people who anthropologists approach in their investigations of sex work, alcohol and drinking, and tourism.

• Chapter 1: Why B-drinking Works: A Semiotics of Seduction and Drinking Chapter 2: B-girls in Public Discourses: A Heritage Approach to Bourbon StreetChapter 3: Finding B-girls in the Ideoscape: Legally Defining the B-girlChapter 4: The Cultural Geography of Power and B-drinking in the 1990sChapter 5: Understanding the Perspectives of B-girls at the Turn of the CenturyChapter 6: Dangers

Angela R. Demovic was assistant professor at Tulane University, Louisiana State University, and Wichita State University.

The book is a standout because it is a good read, not a mean feat in anthropological ethnographic writing today. Readers will not only want to know more about the lives of the women being chronicled but also will be challenged in more profound ways. . . In short, this is not a feel-good book to make the reader comfortable with the theories that they have already adopted, but it is a “think-good” book. . . The book deserves particular attention in current anthropology because of its balanced portrait of lives in relative imbalance, like so many people who anthropologists approach in their investigations of sex work, alcohol and drinking, and tourism.

• Chapter 1: Why B-drinking Works: A Semiotics of Seduction and Drinking Chapter 2: B-girls in Public Discourses: A Heritage Approach to Bourbon StreetChapter 3: Finding B-girls in the Ideoscape: Legally Defining the B-girlChapter 4: The Cultural Geography of Power and B-drinking in the 1990sChapter 5: Understanding the Perspectives of B-girls at the Turn of the CenturyChapter 6: Dangers

Angela R. Demovic was assistant professor at Tulane University, Louisiana State University, and Wichita State University.

The book is a standout because it is a good read, not a mean feat in anthropological ethnographic writing today. Readers will not only want to know more about the lives of the women being chronicled but also will be challenged in more profound ways. . . In short, this is not a feel-good book to make the reader comfortable with the theories that they have already adopted, but it is a “think-good” book. . . The book deserves particular attention in current anthropology because of its balanced portrait of lives in relative imbalance, like so many people who anthropologists approach in their investigations of sex work, alcohol and drinking, and tourism.

• Chapter 1: Why B-drinking Works: A Semiotics of Seduction and Drinking Chapter 2: B-girls in Public Discourses: A Heritage Approach to Bourbon StreetChapter 3: Finding B-girls in the Ideoscape: Legally Defining the B-girlChapter 4: The Cultural Geography of Power and B-drinking in the 1990sChapter 5: Understanding the Perspectives of B-girls at the Turn of the CenturyChapter 6: Dangers