Elisabeth Eaves

Elisabeth Eaves (born 1971) is a Canadian author and journalist. She is a frequent contributor to "Slate" magazine and currently works for "Forbes" magazine as a staff writer.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Eaves received a B.A. in international studies from the University of Washington and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Eaves is author of "Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power" (2002), a non-fiction book about stripping. She worked as a stripper in the Lusty Lady peep show in Seattle, an establishment that had considered (and ultimately rejected) unionization for its workers. On November 10, 2005, Eaves appeared on "The O’Reilly Factor" to talk about a case in which American Express was suing a 40-year-old businessman from Missouri for failing to pay a $241,000 bill that he had run up at a strip club in New York City in one night.

Eaves is currently working on a "novel whose two dominant themes are national identity and globalization."Fact|date=September 2008

Bibliography

*"Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power." Toronto: Knopf, 2002. ISBN 0375412336
*Special Report: Best Cities for Singles, Aug. 21, 2007
*The Lap of Luxury, N.Y. Times, at A25, Oct. 25, 2005 (an Op-Ed article about businessman Robert McCormick's refusal to pay $241,000 bill at Scores).

External links

* [http://www.barethebook.com Bare: The Book website]
* [http://clipmarks.forbes.com/clipper/Elisabeth+Eaves/ Elizabeth Eaves Clipmarks]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1102/eaves/interview.html An Interview with Elizabeth Eaves]
* [http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/21/best-cities-singles-forbeslife-singles07-cx_ee_0821singlesintro.html Best Cities for Singles]