Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver

'Ross's book is outstanding... Ross very effectively uses the erotic entertainment business as a lens through which to view Vancouver history in the post-World War II period - a hugely important period in shaping what the city was to become... it gives us insight into the entire industry, profiling not only the strippers and the problems they faced, but also the men who owned and ran the clubs.' - Gerald Hunt: Labour/leTravail, vol 67: Spring2011 'Ross paints a complex and rich historical snapshot of Vancouver nightlife and argues that the industry was fundamentally important to the city's burgeoning economy.' - Lara Campbell (BC Studies; Number 169: Spring 2011) ‘On the growing bookshelf of work on strippers and strip clubs, their histories, economy, politics, and cultural roles, Burlesque west stands out as a work that humanizes all its players by completing the historical picture… Ross offers a thoroughly researched and compelling work that not only reveals the tremendous cultural debt owed to burlesque but begins to capture this important piece of our collective urban histories. ’ - Michelle M. Carnes; Canadian Journal of Sociology: vol 36:03:2011