Porn Work
Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Heather Berg
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2021
Pages: 256
Subject: History, Business and Economics, Social Science
Print ISBN: 9781469661919
eBook ISBN: 9781469661933
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
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.
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