Risqué Business

Breastaurants in American Culture

Ty Matejowsky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Alabama Press

Publishing:15th Aug '25

£33.95

This title is due to be published on 15th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Risqué Business cover

RisquÉ Business is the first book to culturally address “breastaurants,” the American restaurant chains, particularly Hooters, that appeal mainly to a male demographic looking for pub fare served by young women in titillating uniforms. Following up the success of his Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary, author Ty Matejowsky approaches the phenomenon from a number of angles to illuminate gender and political issues in these problematic dining spaces. Avoiding trivialization of or moralizing about what can be seen as easy targets, he reveals breastaurants as highly corporatized spaces of pervasive casual misogyny that animate the Red State/Blue State divide.

ISBN: 9780817362164

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

232 pages