The feminist porn book : the politics of producing pleasure

The feminist porn book The politics of producing pleasure

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Subjects
Pornography > Political aspects.
Feminism.
Women > Sexual behavior.
Sexual freedom.
Published
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2013.
Language
English
Other Authors
Tristan Taormino, 1971- (Editor), Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, 1948-, Mireille Miller-Young
Physical Description
328 p. ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781558618183
  • Introduction: The politics of producing pleasure / Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young, and Tristan Taormino
  • Making porn, debating porn. Porn wars / Betty Dodson
  • The birth of the blue movie critic / Susie Bright
  • Emotional truths and thrilling slide shows: the resurgence of antiporn feminism / Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood
  • "What's a nice girl like you--" / Candida Royalle
  • My decadent decade: ten years of making and debating porn for women / Ms. Naughty
  • From text to context: feminist porn and the making of a market / Lynn Comella
  • Watching and being watched. A question of feminism / Sinnamon Love
  • Interventions: the deviant and defiant art of Black women porn directors / Mireille Miller-Young
  • Fucking feminism / Dylan Ryan
  • Queer feminist pigs: a spectator's manifesta / Jane Ward
  • "Every time we fuck, we win": the public sphere of queer, feminist, and lesbian porn as a (safe) space for sexual empowerment / Ingrid Ryberg
  • Where the trans women aren't: the slow inclusion of trans women in feminist and queer porn / Tobi Hill-Meyer
  • Imag(in)ing possibilities: the psychotherapeutic potential of queer pornography / Keiko Lane
  • Doing it in school. "A feminist teaching pornography? That's like Scopes teaching evolution!" / Constance Penley
  • Cum guzzling anal nurse whore: a feminist porn star manifesta / Lorelei Lee
  • Pornography: a Black feminist woman scholar's reconciliation / Ariane Cruz
  • Porn: an effective vehicle for sexual role modeling and education / Nina Hartley
  • From "It could happen to someone you love" to "Do you speak ass?": women and discourses of sex education in erotic film and video / Kevin Heffernan
  • Calling the shots: feminist porn in theory and practice / Tristan Taormino
  • Our pornography / Christopher Daniel Zeischegg a.k.a. Danny Wylde
  • Now playing: feminist porn. Uncategorized: genderqueer identity and performance in independent and mainstream porn / Jiz Lee
  • Being Fatty D: size, beauty, and embodiment in the adult industry / April Flores
  • The power of my vagina / Buck Angel
  • Bound by expectation: the racialized sexuality of porn star Keni Styles / Celine Parreñas Shimizu
  • Knowing dick: penetration and the pleasures of feminist porn's trans men / Bobby Noble
  • Out of line: the sexy femmegimp politics of flaunting it! / Loree Erickson.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Sex industry workers, academics, and feminists explore whether pornography is inherently anti-feminist in this intelligent, accessible, and relevant collection of essays. Porn has often been branded as sexist, with "feminist" groups decrying all forms; however, many women over the decades have sought to bridge their love of erotica with their feminist values by supporting and creating porn that adheres to these values. With contributions from some pioneers of feminist porn such as Candida Royalle, the book features a variety of critical perspectives that examine all sides of the issue. Contributors aren't afraid to both objectively praise and criticize advances the industry has made (such as the way feminist porn has, for some, come to equate "soft" porn, and prescribe stereotypes of female desire), and provide both practical ways to become a smart feminist or queer porn consumer alongside academic approaches to the movement. The collection also rightfully includes essays on racial, queer, and transgender representations in porn, topics often marginalized in this discussion. Besides being extremely thoughtprovoking, this must-read collection is accessible to all readers, and the topic inherently makes it engaging and fun. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Review by Library Journal Review

Freedom for women to express their sexuality on their own terms has always been at the center of feminist thought and activism. Pornography, however, presumptively aimed at men and often degrading of women, has engendered powerful disputes among feminists. This collection of new essays compiled by sex educator and pornographer Taormino (Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships), Celine Parrenas Shimizu (Asian American studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Straightjacket Sexualities), Constance Penley (film & media studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America), and Mireille Miller-Young (feminist studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), features work from feminist scholars and theorists, porn filmmakers, and performers such films whose work assumes that both the author and the viewer of feminist pornography are women and that feminist pornography empowers them. Sections of the book address the history of feminist porn; the inclusion and exclusion of groups of women from the feminist porn project; the teaching of feminist porn; and the current state of the art. VERDICT Despite the authority of the writers included and its provocative title, this dense work, suitable for a college-level course, will appeal to a fairly narrow audience of feminist theorists and scholars.-Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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