The Feminist Porn Book
The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Tristan Taormino; Constance Penley; Celine Shimizu; Mireille Miller-Young
“In terms both jarring and harrowing, women’s bodies became the terrain on which the 2012 election was fought. That the choices, experiences, and consequences of women’s sexual lives became fodder for such poorly informed national ‘conversations’ is evidence of the pressing need for thoughtful, sex-positive scholarship which centers on women’s sexual agency. The Feminist Porn Book is just such a contribution, and I predict this volume is going to find its way onto the bedside tables of several generations of American women. This volume brings together academics, activists, and porn entrepreneurs who have a startling array of interactions with pornography as an experience, a business, and a field of inquiry. This text is straightforward and informative in ways that are unfortunately rare in the multi-decade feminist struggle over porn. It’s also fun and sometimes a bit naughty to read. The authors do not assume that the porn industry as it exists is the one essential and only possible incarnation of porn. Instead, they assume that when feminists engage, intervene in, produce, and study pornography, they can radically alter its formations and meanings. At the core of the book is the question: Can porn coexist with the principles of feminism? No matter how one ultimately adjudicates this question, The Feminist Porn Book leaves no doubt about the inherent value in the inquiry itself.” ~ Melissa Harris-Perry, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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Details
| ISBN | 9781558618183 |
| Genre | Anthology – Nonfiction; Sexuality |
| Publication Date | 19-Feb-13 |
| Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
| No. of Pages | 432 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Anthology |
| LoC Classification | HQ471 .F45 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | Feminism; Pornography – Political Aspects; Sexual Freedom; Women – Sexual behavior |
| BookID | 3900 |
