This article explores issues of space, surveillance and social control in an exotic dance club in the New England area. Exotic dancers are subject to social control mechanisms by the owner of the club and enforced by the management via surveillance technologies and club “rules.” Although these rules can be repressive for dancers, the women who work in the club find ways to subvert and resist social control through strategies of evasion and enlisting the complicity of regular customers. The findings emerge from eighteen months of participant observation and ethnographic research and are theoretically informed by poststructural theory. **
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