Porn Work
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feminist political economy
feminized labor
feminized labour
gendered labor
gendered labour
gig work
labor policy
Marxist feminism
materialist feminism
occupational health
pleasure politics
porn industry
Porn labor
porn labour
porn performance
porn performers
porn work
precarious labor
precarity
reproductive labor
sex work
sexual economy
sexual labor
sexual labour
social reproduction
workplace resistance
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- ISBN 9781469661926
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 195 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Part labor history, part ethnography illuminating the lives of the performers who work in the medium, Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. It tells a story of crafty workers, faltering managers, and shifting solidarities.
Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.
Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.
Heather Berg is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
