The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young

The Feminist Press at CUNY, Feb 19, 2013 - Performing Arts - 432 pages

The Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.

Contents

• The Politics of Producing Pleasure: 9
• Part 1 Making Porn Debating Porn: 21
• Part II Watching and Being Watched: 95
• Part III Doing It in School: 177
• Feminist Porn: 271
• About the Feminist Press: 329
• Back Cover: 333

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. She lectures at top colleges and universities around the world.

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. Her award-winning films are distributed by Progressive Films and Third World Newsreel.

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 forthcoming 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Editors: Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013
• ISBN: 155861818X, 9781558618183
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Social Science / Pornography; Social Science / Women's Studies