This thrilling anthology celebrates the power of desire, bringing
together personal essays, manifestos, and scholarly research, turning
the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.
The Feminist Porn
Book weaves together writing by producers, actors, consumers, and
scholars of feminist pornography, investigating not only 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.
With original
contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina
Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn Comella, Jane Ward, Ariane Cruz, Kevin
Heffernan, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the
arguments of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the
women's movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression
and labor in which women and racial and sexual minorities produce
power and pleasure.
"I predict this
volume is going to find its way onto the bedside tables of several
generations of American women. . . . 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
