Porn Work
Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
By Heather Berg

256 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 table, appends., notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6192-6
Published: April 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6191-9
Published: April 2021 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6193-3
Published: February 2021
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About the Author
Heather Berg is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
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"At once impressively rigorous and immensely readable, Porn Work explores the complexities of sex work in the United States today. This rich and timely study of the creative strategies sex workers have used to navigate precarious forms of labor is an absolute must-read for students of political economy and the contemporary struggles within and against work."--Kathi Weeks, author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
"This book asks what it means to call porn 'work,' and what it means that the feminism at the vanguard of this framing of pornography often forgets that work itself is a site of struggle and exploitation. Berg offers a 'porn work lens' that allows readers to rethink pleasure, labor, sex, and precarity, developing an anticapitalist feminist critique of work that centers struggle and workers' voices and experiences."--Jennifer C. Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography
"Heather Berg's Porn Work powerfully shows that it's not necessary to defend porn as 'good work' for it to be real work. Berg is bringing porn studies into the postwork future of sex work politics."--Melissa Gira Grant, author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work and staff writer at The New Republic