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Feminist Porn Book, The: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Author(s): Tristan Taormino (Author), Mireille Miller-Young (Author)
- Publisher: The Feminist Press Cuny
- Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 432 pages
- ISBN-10: 155861818X
- ISBN-13: 9781558618183
Book Description
For the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars are brought together. A collection of editors who work within feminist theory, film and erotic writing collate a thorough investigation not only into how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn – that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative and growing industries. Updates the debates of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women’s movement.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“What a bold, brave and essential undertaking The Feminist Porn Book is… the punk, DIY ethics, politics and positivity of the contributors are infectious, and although many readers might find that the book raise more questions than it answers, as a starting point, it’s a powerful, important resource.” –For Books Sake
About the Author
Tristan Taormino is a sex educator, feminist pornographer, and the award-winning author of seven books including The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and Opening Up. As head of Smart Ass Productions, she has directed and produced twenty-four adult films. She is the host of Sex Out Loud” on The VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network.
Filmmaker and film scholar
Celine Parreñas Shimizu is professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books are Straitjacket Sexualities and The Hypersexuality of Race, winner of the 2009 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Constance Penley is professor of film and media studies and co-director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, University of California, Santa Barbara. A founding editor of Camera Obscura, her work includes The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis, NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America, Teaching Pornography (forthcoming), and influential collections Feminism and Film Theory, Male Trouble, and Technoculture. Mireille Miller-Young is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches about race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture and the sex industries. Her book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work, and Pornography (Duke University Press) examines African American women’s sex work in the porn industry.
