Feminist Porn Book (eBook)

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.

The Feminist Porn BookPreliminary Table of Contents Introduction: “Producing Pleasure, Watching Smut, and Redefining Sex: Feminist Pornography and Politics in Academe and The Adult Industry” by Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young and Tristan Taormino1. Watching It: Feminist/Porn SpectatorshipSusie Bright, The Birth of the Blue Movie CriticKristin Cole, Pornography, Censorship, and Public Sex: Exploring Feminist Perspectives of (Public) Pornography Through the Case of PornotopiaAriane Cruz, Pornography: A Black Feminist Woman Scholar’s ReconciliationEmily Crutcher, “She’s Totally Faking It!” The Politics of Authentic Female Pleasure in PornographyAlea Adigweme, The Pleasure of Flinching: On the Intersections between Pornography, Brown Women, and SufferingJane Ward, Feminist Chauvinist Pigs: Getting Off and Getting Beyond the Authenticity Imperative2. We Build It, They Come? Emerging Markets and (In)conspicuous ConsumptionCandida Royalle, What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?Karen Jackson, My Decadent Decade: Ten Years of Making and Debating Porn for WomenLynn Comella, From Text to Context: Feminist Porn and the Making of a MarketAnne G. Sabo, After Pornified: Feminist PornKeiko Lane, Imag(in)ing Possibilities: The Psychotherapeutic Potential of Queer Pornography3. Making It: Agency, Labor, and ProductionBetty Dodson, Porn WarsTristan Taormino, Calling the Shots: Feminist Porn in Principle and PracticeChristopher Daniel Zeischegg, The Case for Consent: An Examination of Ethics in PornMireille Miller-Young, Interventions: The Deviant and Defiant Art of Black Women Porn DirectorsCrystal Jackson and Laurenn McCubbin, The Queer Porn Mafia: Redefining Gender, Sex, Desire, and FeminismJennifer Moorman, “Wanda Whips Wall Street”: Women Filmmakers and the Business of Pornography4. Messages and Manifestos: Performance and RepresentationNina Hartley, Porn As Vehicle for Sexual Role Modeling and EducationKevin Heffernan, From “It Could Happen to Someone You Love” to “Do You Speak Ass?” Women and Discourses of Sex Education in Erotic Film and VideoKristina Pia Hofer, Pornographic Domesticity: Amateur Couple Netporn, Straight Subjectivities, and Sexual LaborLorelei Lee, Cum Guzzling Anal Nurse Whore: A Feminist Porn Star ManifestaDylan Ryan, Porn Star. Feminist?Sinnamon Love, A Question of Feminism5. Academic and Activist Interventions: Feminist Porn Pedagogies and Social MovementsRonald Weitzer, The Need for Solid Evidence: Reviewing Everyday Pornography and PornlandFeona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, Emotional Truths and Thrilling Slideshows: The Resurgence of Anti-Porn FeminismConstance Penley, Teaching PornographyIngrid Ryberg, “Every time we fuck, we win.” The Public Sphere of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Porn as a (Safe) Space for Sexual EmpowermentCeline Parreñas Shimizu, Beyond Looking for the Penis: The Feminist Ethics of Asian American Men in Porn6. “Dangerous” Bodies: Constructions of Desire and OthernessJason Davids Scott, Girls Will Be Boys: The Transgressive Female BodyJiz Lee, Uncategorized: Genderqueer Identity and Performance in Independent and Mainstream PornApril Flores, Being Fatty DLoree Erickson, Out of Line: The Sexy Femmegimp Politics of Flaunting ItBuck Angel, The Power of My VaginaBobby Nobel, The P Word: Pleasure, Penetration and the Post-Politics of Porn’s Feminist MasculinitiesTobi Hill-Meyer, Where The Trans Women Aren’t: The Slow Inclusion of Trans Women in Feminist/Queer Porn