The Feminist Porn Book

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

The Feminist Porn Book
Preliminary 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 Taormino

1. Watching It: Feminist/Porn Spectatorship
Susie Bright, The Birth of the Blue Movie Critic
Kristin Cole, Pornography, Censorship, and Public Sex: Exploring Feminist Perspectives of (Public) Pornography Through the Case of Pornotopia
Ariane Cruz, Pornography: A Black Feminist Woman Scholar's Reconciliation
Emily Crutcher, "She's Totally Faking It!" The Politics of Authentic Female Pleasure in Pornography
Alea Adigweme, The Pleasure of Flinching: On the Intersections between Pornography, Brown Women, and Suffering
Jane Ward, Feminist Chauvinist Pigs: Getting Off and Getting Beyond the Authenticity Imperative

2. We Build It, They Come? Emerging Markets and (In)conspicuous Consumption
Candida 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 Women
Lynn Comella, From Text to Context: Feminist Porn and the Making of a Market
Anne G. Sabo, After Pornified: Feminist Porn
Keiko Lane, Imag(in)ing Possibilities: The Psychotherapeutic Potential of Queer Pornography

3. Making It: Agency, Labor, and Production
Betty Dodson, Porn Wars
Tristan Taormino, Calling the Shots: Feminist Porn in Principle and Practice
Christopher Daniel Zeischegg, The Case for Consent: An Examination of Ethics in Porn
Mireille Miller-Young, Interventions: The Deviant and Defiant Art of Black Women Porn Directors
Crystal Jackson and Laurenn McCubbin, The Queer Porn Mafia: Redefining Gender, Sex, Desire, and Feminism
Jennifer Moorman, "Wanda Whips Wall Street": Women Filmmakers and the Business of Pornography

4. Messages and Manifestos: Performance and Representation
Nina Hartley, Porn As Vehicle for Sexual Role Modeling and Education
Kevin Heffernan, From "It Could Happen to Someone You Love" to "Do You Speak Ass?" Women and Discourses of Sex Education in Erotic Film and Video
Kristina Pia Hofer, Pornographic Domesticity: Amateur Couple Netporn, Straight Subjectivities, and Sexual Labor
Lorelei Lee, Cum Guzzling Anal Nurse Whore: A Feminist Porn Star Manifesta
Dylan Ryan, Porn Star. Feminist?
Sinnamon Love, A Question of Feminism

5. Academic and Activist Interventions: Feminist Porn Pedagogies and Social Movements
Ronald Weitzer, The Need for Solid Evidence: Reviewing Everyday Pornography and Pornland
Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, Emotional Truths and Thrilling Slideshows: The Resurgence of Anti-Porn Feminism
Constance Penley, Teaching Pornography
Ingrid Ryberg, "Every time we fuck, we win." The Public Sphere of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Porn as a (Safe) Space for Sexual Empowerment
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Beyond Looking for the Penis: The Feminist Ethics of Asian American Men in Porn

6. "Dangerous" Bodies: Constructions of Desire and Otherness
Jason Davids Scott, Girls Will Be Boys: The Transgressive Female Body
Jiz Lee, Uncategorized: Genderqueer Identity and Performance in Independent and Mainstream Porn
April Flores, Being Fatty D
Loree Erickson, Out of Line: The Sexy Femmegimp Politics of Flaunting It
Buck Angel, The Power of My Vagina
Bobby Nobel, The P Word: Pleasure, Penetration and the Post-Politics of Porn's Feminist Masculinities
Tobi Hill-Meyer, Where The Trans Women Aren't: The Slow Inclusion of Trans Women in Feminist/Queer Porn