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Notes

  1. http://www.equalities.gov.uk/.

  2. I am grateful to the reviewers for suggesting this distinction.

  3. For an in-depth summary of the political and legal issues around the licensing of lap dancing, see House of Commons Library Research Paper, ‘Policing and Crime Bill, Bill 7 of 2008–2009’, pp. 58–70, available at http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2009/rp09-039.pdf (last accessed 15 September 2009).

  4. Notes of a public meeting, 4 November 2008, from author’s files.

  5. She explains this perspective further in Rake (2008).

  6. For a more detailed account of the Lap Dancing Association’s perspective, see the Memorandum submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, November 2008, available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmcumeds/492/8112507.htm (last accessed 15 September 2009).

  7. http://www.ldauk.org.uk/Who-We-Are_pg2.aspx (last accessed 15 September 2009).

  8. As reported in ‘Sex and the citizen: Lap-dancing – a licence to thrill’, The Independent, 18 June 2008.

  9. McRobbie, referring to young women, suggests that the female subject is compelled to reject feminism and withhold her criticisms of lap dancing and other sorts of soft porn in order to “count as a modern sophisticated girl” (2009, p. 18).

  10. Letter to The Times, 15 August 2008.

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Samuels, H. An Uneasy Alliance? The Relationship Between Feminist Legal Studies and Gender, Sexuality and Law. Fem Leg Stud 17, 297–301 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-009-9135-4

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