Kate Hardy

Spänning i luftenRyktena om den attraktiva nya läkaren på barnsjukhuset sprids som en löpeld. Han är inte bara italienare, utan även hertig! Men Rosie Hobbes låter sig inte imponeras. Dessutom har hon fullt upp med sitt. Men luften mellan dem sprakar onekligen av hetta och sexuell energi. Kanske har Rosie dömt ut Leo Marchetti lite för snabbt Glittrande blå ögonSingelpappan Daniel Caldwell är fullt upptagen med att ta hand om sin dotter Maddie och har varken tid eller lust för kärlek. Tills han möter Zoey Evans, en sjuksköterska med så glittrande blå ögon att han inte lyckas få dem ur huvudet. Ett möte leder till en första omskakande kyss och plötsligt måste Daniel omvärdera allt han någonsin tänkt om kärlek!

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.

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.

Four Londoners, whose lives are already entwined, wittingly and otherwise, are about to meet again in an obscure seaside town in southern France ...Set in France, London and Las Vegas, Staying out of the midday sun, is the second part of a trilogy spanning twenty years, in which the heroes are challenged with the everyday: love, babies, gite cleaning, a new language, aging parents - as well as shoot-outs, Las Vegas weddings, bureaucracy, duck gizzard salad, and possibly the end of the world.

Ända sedan Joel Mortimer förlorade sin fru har han helhjärtat gått in både för arbetet och för att ta hand om sin lilla dotter Beth. Han har lovat sig själv att aldrig se åt en annan kvinna igen, och varken skaffa fler barn eller en ny mamma åt dottern. Hon har redan gått igenom alltför många svårigheter i livet. Men när Joel möter den nya AT-läkaren Lisa Richardson ångrar han nästan sina löften. Lisa är inte heller ute efter ett fast förhållande, men precis som Joel har hon svårt att motstå frestelsen. En natt ger de vika - och snart upptäcker Lisa att hon väntar barn ...