Alexander, H.M.  Strip Tease: The Vanished Art of Burlesque.
    New York:  Knight Publishers, 1938.

Allen, Robert C.  Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture.
    Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
 
Corio, Ann.  This Was Burlesque.
     New York:  Grosset & Dunlap, 1968.
 
Jarrett, Judith Lynn.  Stripping in Time: A History of Exotic Dancing.
   San Francisco:  Pandora, 1997.
 
Pullen, Kirsten.  Actresses and Whores: On Stage and In Society.
    Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2005. 
 
Shteir, Rachel.  Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show.
    Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004.

Recommended Reading

Baldwin, Michelle.  Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind.
    Denver:  Speck Press, 2004.

Bosse, Katharina.  New Burlesque. 
    New York:  Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Burana, Lily.  Strip City. 
    New York:  Hyperion, 2001.

Buszek, Maria Elena.  Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture.
    Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 2006.

Glasscock, Jessica.  Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight.
    New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.

Goldwyn, Liz.  Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens.
    New York:  Regan Books, 2006.

Kibler, M. Allison.  Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville. 
    Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Mizejewski, Linda.  Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema. 
    Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 1999.

Sobel, Bernard.  Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days. 
    New York:  Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.

Stencell, A.W.  Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind.
    Toronto:  ECW Press, 1999.

Von Teese, Dita.  Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese.
    New York:  Regan Books, 2006.