Whores and Other Feminists

Strippers, peepshow dancers, and porn stars trade spiked heels for footnotes while demonstrating their often overlooked ability to engage in scholarly discourse in this collection of essays focusing on the subject of feminism as practiced by those who call themselves "sex workers." Along with the first-person accounts by such underground luminaries as Nina Hartley, Tracy Quan, and Annie Sprinkle, are forays into the sex dens by a number of academics. The writing is frank, though hardly pornographic, and many of the points raised and discussed are treated with more seriousness and considerably more insight than they usually are in the mainstream press.

• Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
• Sex For Sale
• The Philosophy of Pornography: Contemporary Perspectives
• $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution
• Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
• Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
• Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
• The Philosophy of Pornography: Contemporary Perspectives
• Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive
• Prostitution and Sex Trafficking (Opposing Viewpoints)