This is a simple listing of the burlesque books in the Boston Babydolls' Library, plus a few we'd like to have. For books written by our friends and fans go here.
Abbott, Karen. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose, 2010.*
Allen, Ralph G. The Best Burlesque Sketches, 1995. Read review!
Allen, Robert Clyde. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture, 1991.
Baldwin, Michelle. Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind, 2004.
Beck, Kathrine. Gypsy Rose Lee, Writing & Stripping, 2011. (ebook) Read review!
Bosse, Katharina. New Burlesque, 2004. Read review!
Briggeman, Jane. Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the Stage, 2004. Read review!
Brown, Lillian Kiernan. Banned in Boston: Memoirs of a Stripper, 2003. Read review!
Bruce, Honey. Honey: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady, 1976. Read review!
Cary, David. A Bit of Burlesque: A Brief History of Its Times & Stars, 1997. Read review!
Corio, Ann. This Was Burlesque, 1968.*
Davis, Andrew. Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition, 2011.
DiNardo, Kelly. Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique, 2007. Read review!
Dubberley, Emily and Alyson Fixter. Ultimate Burlesque, 2008. (fiction) Read review!
Frankel, Noralee. Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee, 2010.*
Glasscock, Jessica. Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlight, 2003. Read review!
Goldwyn, Liz. Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens, 2006. Read review!
iMinds. Burlesque: Pop Culture, 2010. (ebook) Read review!
Janes, Brian C. It's All That Glitters: Portraits of Burlesque Performers in Their Homes, 2012.
Kotzan, Doris. My Journey: Burlesque: The Way It Was, 2005. Read review!
Kruh, David. Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square, 1999. Read review!
Lee, Gypsy Rose. Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper, 1957. *
Livingston, Bernard. Papa's Burlesque House: Growing Up in a Burlesque Theater, 1971. (fiction) Read review!
Miller, Neil. Banned in Boston, 2010. Read review!
Minsky, Morton and Milt Machlin. Minsky's Burlesque, 1986. Read review!
Paris, Yvette. Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris, 1990.*
Porkpie, Jonny. The Corpse Wore Pasties, 2009. (fiction)
Poston, Dick. Burlesque Humor Revisited, 1977. Read review!
Preminger, Erik Lee. Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road With Gypsy Rose Lee, 1984. Read review!
Reighley, Kurt B. and Aaron Bagley. United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement, 2010. Read review!
Rella, Ettore. A History of Burlesque. San Francisco Theatre Research Series, v. 14, 1940.*
Rosebush, Judson. Burlesque Exotic Dancers of the 50s & 60s, 2010. Read review!
Rothe, Len. The Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs of the 1940s and 1950s, 1998. Read review!
Rothe, Len. The Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque From the '40s and '50s, 1998. Read review!
Schwarz, Ted. Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque, 2008. Read review!
Shteir, Rachel. Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show, 2004. Read review!
Shteir, Rachel. Gypsy: The Art of the Tease, 2009. Read review!
Slaughter, Kevin I. Queens of Burlesque: Ann Arbor, Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lili St. Cyr and Sally Rand, 2011. (ebook) Read review!
Slaughter, Kevin I. Dames of Burlesque: Blaze Starr, Tura Satana, Ricki Covette and Other Ecdysiasts, 2011. (ebook) Read review!
Slaughter, Kevin I. Dolls of Burlesque: Irma The Body, Dorian Dennis, Connie Vaughn and More Vintage Strip Tease Artists, 2011. (ebook) Read review!
Sobel, Bernard. A Pictorial History of Burlesque, 1956. Read review!
Sothern, Georgia. Georgia: My Life in Burlesque, 1972. Read review!
Starr, Blaze. Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry, 1974. Read review!
Stencell, A. W. Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind, 2000. Read review!
Storm, Tempest. The Lady is a Vamp, 1987.
Summers, Dusty. The Lady is a Stripper, 2001.
Summers, Dusty. The Golden G-String, 2002. (fiction)
von Teese, Dita. Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, 2006.
von Teese, Dita and Sheryl Nields. Dita: Stripteese, 2009. Read review!
Vogt, Julie N. "Woman to Woman: Ann Corio and the Rehabilitation of American Burlesque." Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010.*
Weldon, Jo. The Burlesque Handbook, 2010. Read review!
Willson, Jacki. The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque, 2008.*
Wortley, Richard. A Pictorial History of Striptease: 100 Years of Undressing to Music, 1976. Read review!
Zeidman, Irving. The American Burlesque Show, 1976.
