Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up
a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the
United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many
important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality.
This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy moves away from the
more traditional focus on the relations between dancers and
customers, to a focus on regulation and the working conditions
experienced by those working in stripping work. Drawing on
interviews, survey data and participant observation with dancers,
managers, regulators and other staff, Sanders and Hardy present the
first ever nationwide study of the stripping industry and the
working lives of those within it.
The book explores the reasons for the expansion of the industry
in the United Kingdom and the experiences, opinions and
perspectives of those that produce and shape it. Placing dancers'
voices centre stage, it examines the wider political economy which
shapes dancers' engagement in employment in the stripping industry,
pointing towards the wider conditions of the labour market and
growing privatisation of Higher Education as explanatory factors
for its labour supply. In suggesting a new feminist politics of
stripping, dancers voice their own political awareness of erotic
dance and an intersectional analysis of solidarity with workers in
the stripping industry is foregrounded.
Presenting a 360 degree view of the industry, this
ground-breaking study presents systematic evidence for the first
time on this area of social life which has become central as a
strategy of survival, class mobility and urban accumulation. It
will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the
fields of criminology, sociology, geography, labour studies and
gender studies, as well as regulators, activists and even dancers
themselves.
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