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The feminist porn book : the politics of producing pleasure / edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young.

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Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2016.

Pornography -- Political aspects.

Women -- Sexual behavior.

Sexual freedom.

Alternate title:

Politics of producing pleasure

328 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Parre©łas 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.

This book brings together writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. It investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn - that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume this kind of 'industry'. With contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn Comella, Jane Ward, Ariane Cruz, Kevin Heffernan, and more.

Taormino, Tristan, 1971-

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