Heather Berg is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
"Berg shows us that porn work both is and isn't like other work and
that porn work has much to tell us about the conditions and
contradictions of labor in late capitalism. . . . [A] must-read for
those interested in porn studies, sex work, and sexuality more
generally."--Labor
"[A] breathtaking work of scholarship--the product of 81 interviews
Berg conducted with performers, managers, and crew members, the
interviewees ranging in age from 21 to 70--that challenges
preconceived notions and tidy assumptions on every page."--Los
Angeles Review of Books
"[Berg] hones in on how porn work is both exceptional but
excruciatingly ordinary, the most insecure of gig economies but
also rife with possibilities for appropriating the means of
production (at this point, just 'your body, a smartphone, a web
connection' ) . . . emblematizing the ways porn workers 'hack their
industries' to imagine life without work, or at least with a lot
less of it."--Boston Review
"[It] is a testament to Porn Work's intellectual vibrancy that we
finish the book wanting more. . . . [A] magnificent, incisive book
that offers not analysis from on high but rather scholarship forged
in solidarity and committed to new and better politics."--New Labor
Forum
"A deeply researched book examining the nuances of labor within the
adult industry."--Jezebel
"Theoretically sophisticated, elegantly written, and rigorously
even-handed in [the] treatment of her subjects . . . Berg depicts
her eighty-plus interviewees as complex subjects with a variety of
motivations, calculations, and desires laboring in a very
particular corner of the contemporary professional
landscape."--Sexualities
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