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Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Length:
72 minutes
Released:
Sep 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism (UNC Press, 2021) 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.
Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers.
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Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers.
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Released:
Sep 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Elizabeth Heineman, “Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse” (University of Chicago Press, 2011): When I was in college in the 1980s, I liked to listen to Iggy Pop (aka James Newell Osterberg, Jr.). I was always mystified, however, by his song “Five Foot One,” with its odd and catchy refrain “I wish life could be/Swed-ish mag-a-zines! by New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work