Heather Berg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 645903 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Heather Berg |
| NOMBRES | Heather |
| APELLIDO | Berg |
| FIRMA | BERG H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Porn labour
If You're Going to Be Beautiful, You Better Be Dangerous
Refusing both sex workers' state-produced vulnerability to violence and the state's monopoly on protection, sex worker radicals articulate community defense as a practice of care. Grounded in interviews with thinkers of the sex worker Left and in sex workers' cultural production, this article explores sex worker community defense with an eye to its relationship to past struggles and contributions to future ones. Chief among those is the abolition…
Free Sex
Grounded in sex worker theory, this essay explores paid sex as a confrontation with free sex. Sex worker theorists name an ambivalent relationship to radical feminist thought, finding theoretical affinities in radical feminism's critiques of unpaid heterosexuality while also disidentifying with its whorephobia, whiteness, gender essentialism, and narratives of false conscious. In an invitation for a radical feminism that commits to radical politi…
Une scène n'est qu'un outil marketing
S'appuyant sur une enquête ethnographique par observation et entretien, cet article explore le rôle des sources de revenus complémentaires dans l'économie politique de l'industrie pornographique nord-américaine. Pour de nombreuses actrices de porno, tourner une scène dans un film relève davantage d'une tactique de marketing - visant à valoriser d'autres services plus rémunérateurs - que d'une activité professionnelle principale. Cette tactique pe…
Queer Sex and the Crisis of Capital
Sexuality is not a space protected from the tedium and violence of life under capitalism, argues Christopher Chitty, and neither is it the product of capital's top-down maneuvering. Instead, it is a terrain of class conflict. Chitty's sprawling Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System takes us from early modern Florence to the postwar United States to tell a story about how capital flows shape sex and how, …
Reading Gigs Dialectically
With gig-based sex work as its analytical lens, this article argues that narratives about the crisis of gigification miss workers’ exits from non-gig employment. It advocates taking gig workers seriously when they say they prefer gigified hustling to clocking in for a middling wage. Gig work’s autonomy, limited as it is, can make the workday materially better. And the platform is not necessarily more powerful, or better able to forge false consci…
Nothing about us Without us’
What Can Feminist Work Be
What Can Feminist Work Be?: A Conversation with WSQ Authors Kathi Weeks and Heather Berg Samantha Pinto (bio), Kathi Weeks (bio), and Heather Berg (bio) One of the calling cards of WSQ is the way it creates rich conversations within subfields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Through its special issue format, WSQ gives us a window into intra- and interdisciplinary thinking and makes reading each issue an event in the field, a recalibrati…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Porn Work
Reading Sex Work
Introduction it's true, sometimes I have to get extremely drunk but it isn't like poor me, in a strapless sequin dress it's just these people are all too stupid to have all this money -Rachel Rabbit White, Porn Carnival (2019)
Erotic Labor within and without Work
In this interview, femi babylon elaborates a proheaux womanist theory of erotic labor as at once work and antiwork. "Sex work is work" speaks to the realities of erotic labor as a survival strategy and illuminates the connections among erotic labor and other forms of gig work. At the same time, it can operate as a bid for respectability, and one that occludes erotic labor as a strategy for refusing the work ethic. Thinking through the politics of…
Left of #MeToo
Feminist Studies 46, no. 2. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 259 Heather Berg Left of #MeToo In her 1949 call to “End the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” Claudia Jones tells the story of Dora Jones, a Black domestic worker enslaved for forty years by her employer.1 Elizabeth Ingalls, a wealthy white woman, had traveled to Dora Jones’s Alabama home as a missionary teacher and persuaded the seventeen-year-old Jones to travel to Boston …
Workers and publics
Porn Work, Feminist Critique, and the Market for Authenticity
This article argues that feminist critiques of pornography—conversations initiated in the feminist “sex wars”—merge with post-Fordist work ethics to make the performance of authenticity a central component of porn work. Echoing antiporn feminist critiques that posit commercial sexuality as a danger and authentic sexuality its cure, porn managers describe authentic desire—in contrast to economic motivation—as a key feature of what makes a good wor…
A scene is just a marketing tool’
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article explores the role of alternative income streams in the political economy of the US adult film industry. For many porn workers, film scenes function more as marketing tools – advertisements for workers' other paid pursuits – than primary sources of income. They represent one way for performers to creatively manipulate the conditions of porn work in order to maximize earning potential…
Labouring porn studies
This essay explores the political economy of both doing and studying pornography. The article suggests that a critical labour studies lens can enrich porn scholarship, but also that porn work can tell us volumes about the nature of labour under late capitalism. Resisting the suggestion popular among anti-porn feminists that anti-capitalist and anti-pornography critique are mutually constitutive, I suggest that a political economic analysis of por…
Playing the whore
Trafficking Policy, Meaning Making and State Violence
This article reviews critical literature on sex trafficking policy through a cultural studies lens. It argues that the conflation of ‘trafficking’ and prostitution that pervades anti-trafficking policy makes trafficking victims out of sex workers. On another register, anti-trafficking policy creates ‘victims’ through curtailments on mobility and work eligibility that make workers more dependent on third party managers and less able to secure assi…
An Honest Day's Wage for a Dishonest Day's Work
An Honest Day’s Wage for a Dishonest Day’s Work:(Re)Productivism and Refusal Heather Berg (bio) Thirty years after publishing the pivotal “Wages Against Housework,” Silvia Federici revisited reproductive labor and its central role in the “unfinished feminist revolution”: “The concept of ‘reproductive labor’ recognizes the possibility of crucial alliances and forms of cooperation between producers and the reproduced: mothers and children, teachers…
Working for Love, Loving for Work
Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 693 Heather Berg Working for Love, Loving for Work: Discourses of Labor in Feminist Sex-Work Activism In the late 1970s, Carol Leigh (a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot) coined the term "sex work" as a means to best describe the labor she and other workers in commercial sex industries performed. Leigh hoped the term would unite workers, provide an alternative to stigmatized language, and "acknowledg…
Conservation Education for Advancing Natural Resources Knowledge and Building Capacity for Volunteerism
Natural resource agencies increasingly need to engage nontraditional stakeholders for public support and financial resources, especially considering a decline in traditional activities such as hunting and fishing. Conservation educators recognized this need, and they are creating new networks of outreach and service programs. The Michigan Conservation Stewards Program (CSP) was designed to reach new stakeholders for natural resource management as…
Working for Love, Loving for Work
Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 693 Heather Berg Working for Love, Loving for Work: Discourses of Labor in Feminist Sex-Work Activism In the late 1970s, Carol Leigh (a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot) coined the term "sex work" as a means to best describe the labor she and other workers in commercial sex industries performed. Leigh hoped the term would unite workers, provide an alternative to stigmatized language, and "acknowledg…
A scene is just a marketing tool’
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article explores the role of alternative income streams in the political economy of the US adult film industry. For many porn workers, film scenes function more as marketing tools – advertisements for workers' other paid pursuits – than primary sources of income. They represent one way for performers to creatively manipulate the conditions of porn work in order to maximize earning potential…
Labouring porn studies
This essay explores the political economy of both doing and studying pornography. The article suggests that a critical labour studies lens can enrich porn scholarship, but also that porn work can tell us volumes about the nature of labour under late capitalism. Resisting the suggestion popular among anti-porn feminists that anti-capitalist and anti-pornography critique are mutually constitutive, I suggest that a political economic analysis of por…
Reading Gigs Dialectically
With gig-based sex work as its analytical lens, this article argues that narratives about the crisis of gigification miss workers’ exits from non-gig employment. It advocates taking gig workers seriously when they say they prefer gigified hustling to clocking in for a middling wage. Gig work’s autonomy, limited as it is, can make the workday materially better. And the platform is not necessarily more powerful, or better able to forge false consci…
Trafficking Policy, Meaning Making and State Violence
This article reviews critical literature on sex trafficking policy through a cultural studies lens. It argues that the conflation of ‘trafficking’ and prostitution that pervades anti-trafficking policy makes trafficking victims out of sex workers. On another register, anti-trafficking policy creates ‘victims’ through curtailments on mobility and work eligibility that make workers more dependent on third party managers and less able to secure assi…
Left of #MeToo
Feminist Studies 46, no. 2. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 259 Heather Berg Left of #MeToo In her 1949 call to “End the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” Claudia Jones tells the story of Dora Jones, a Black domestic worker enslaved for forty years by her employer.1 Elizabeth Ingalls, a wealthy white woman, had traveled to Dora Jones’s Alabama home as a missionary teacher and persuaded the seventeen-year-old Jones to travel to Boston …
An Honest Day's Wage for a Dishonest Day's Work
An Honest Day’s Wage for a Dishonest Day’s Work:(Re)Productivism and Refusal Heather Berg (bio) Thirty years after publishing the pivotal “Wages Against Housework,” Silvia Federici revisited reproductive labor and its central role in the “unfinished feminist revolution”: “The concept of ‘reproductive labor’ recognizes the possibility of crucial alliances and forms of cooperation between producers and the reproduced: mothers and children, teachers…
Porn labour
If You're Going to Be Beautiful, You Better Be Dangerous
Refusing both sex workers' state-produced vulnerability to violence and the state's monopoly on protection, sex worker radicals articulate community defense as a practice of care. Grounded in interviews with thinkers of the sex worker Left and in sex workers' cultural production, this article explores sex worker community defense with an eye to its relationship to past struggles and contributions to future ones. Chief among those is the abolition…
Une scène n'est qu'un outil marketing
S'appuyant sur une enquête ethnographique par observation et entretien, cet article explore le rôle des sources de revenus complémentaires dans l'économie politique de l'industrie pornographique nord-américaine. Pour de nombreuses actrices de porno, tourner une scène dans un film relève davantage d'une tactique de marketing - visant à valoriser d'autres services plus rémunérateurs - que d'une activité professionnelle principale. Cette tactique pe…
Nothing about us Without us’
Reading Sex Work
Introduction it's true, sometimes I have to get extremely drunk but it isn't like poor me, in a strapless sequin dress it's just these people are all too stupid to have all this money -Rachel Rabbit White, Porn Carnival (2019)
Erotic Labor within and without Work
In this interview, femi babylon elaborates a proheaux womanist theory of erotic labor as at once work and antiwork. "Sex work is work" speaks to the realities of erotic labor as a survival strategy and illuminates the connections among erotic labor and other forms of gig work. At the same time, it can operate as a bid for respectability, and one that occludes erotic labor as a strategy for refusing the work ethic. Thinking through the politics of…
Workers and publics
Conservation Education for Advancing Natural Resources Knowledge and Building Capacity for Volunteerism
Natural resource agencies increasingly need to engage nontraditional stakeholders for public support and financial resources, especially considering a decline in traditional activities such as hunting and fishing. Conservation educators recognized this need, and they are creating new networks of outreach and service programs. The Michigan Conservation Stewards Program (CSP) was designed to reach new stakeholders for natural resource management as…
Conservation Education for Advancing Natural Resources Knowledge and Building Capacity for Volunteerism
Natural resource agencies increasingly need to engage nontraditional stakeholders for public support and financial resources, especially considering a decline in traditional activities such as hunting and fishing. Conservation educators recognized this need, and they are creating new networks of outreach and service programs. The Michigan Conservation Stewards Program (CSP) was designed to reach new stakeholders for natural resource management as…
Labouring porn studies
This essay explores the political economy of both doing and studying pornography. The article suggests that a critical labour studies lens can enrich porn scholarship, but also that porn work can tell us volumes about the nature of labour under late capitalism. Resisting the suggestion popular among anti-porn feminists that anti-capitalist and anti-pornography critique are mutually constitutive, I suggest that a political economic analysis of por…
Playing the whore
Trafficking Policy, Meaning Making and State Violence
This article reviews critical literature on sex trafficking policy through a cultural studies lens. It argues that the conflation of ‘trafficking’ and prostitution that pervades anti-trafficking policy makes trafficking victims out of sex workers. On another register, anti-trafficking policy creates ‘victims’ through curtailments on mobility and work eligibility that make workers more dependent on third party managers and less able to secure assi…
An Honest Day's Wage for a Dishonest Day's Work
An Honest Day’s Wage for a Dishonest Day’s Work:(Re)Productivism and Refusal Heather Berg (bio) Thirty years after publishing the pivotal “Wages Against Housework,” Silvia Federici revisited reproductive labor and its central role in the “unfinished feminist revolution”: “The concept of ‘reproductive labor’ recognizes the possibility of crucial alliances and forms of cooperation between producers and the reproduced: mothers and children, teachers…
Working for Love, Loving for Work
Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 693 Heather Berg Working for Love, Loving for Work: Discourses of Labor in Feminist Sex-Work Activism In the late 1970s, Carol Leigh (a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot) coined the term "sex work" as a means to best describe the labor she and other workers in commercial sex industries performed. Leigh hoped the term would unite workers, provide an alternative to stigmatized language, and "acknowledg…
A scene is just a marketing tool’
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article explores the role of alternative income streams in the political economy of the US adult film industry. For many porn workers, film scenes function more as marketing tools – advertisements for workers' other paid pursuits – than primary sources of income. They represent one way for performers to creatively manipulate the conditions of porn work in order to maximize earning potential…
Porn Work, Feminist Critique, and the Market for Authenticity
This article argues that feminist critiques of pornography—conversations initiated in the feminist “sex wars”—merge with post-Fordist work ethics to make the performance of authenticity a central component of porn work. Echoing antiporn feminist critiques that posit commercial sexuality as a danger and authentic sexuality its cure, porn managers describe authentic desire—in contrast to economic motivation—as a key feature of what makes a good wor…
Workers and publics
Left of #MeToo
Feminist Studies 46, no. 2. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 259 Heather Berg Left of #MeToo In her 1949 call to “End the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” Claudia Jones tells the story of Dora Jones, a Black domestic worker enslaved for forty years by her employer.1 Elizabeth Ingalls, a wealthy white woman, had traveled to Dora Jones’s Alabama home as a missionary teacher and persuaded the seventeen-year-old Jones to travel to Boston …
Porn Work
Reading Sex Work
Introduction it's true, sometimes I have to get extremely drunk but it isn't like poor me, in a strapless sequin dress it's just these people are all too stupid to have all this money -Rachel Rabbit White, Porn Carnival (2019)
Erotic Labor within and without Work
In this interview, femi babylon elaborates a proheaux womanist theory of erotic labor as at once work and antiwork. "Sex work is work" speaks to the realities of erotic labor as a survival strategy and illuminates the connections among erotic labor and other forms of gig work. At the same time, it can operate as a bid for respectability, and one that occludes erotic labor as a strategy for refusing the work ethic. Thinking through the politics of…
Reading Gigs Dialectically
With gig-based sex work as its analytical lens, this article argues that narratives about the crisis of gigification miss workers’ exits from non-gig employment. It advocates taking gig workers seriously when they say they prefer gigified hustling to clocking in for a middling wage. Gig work’s autonomy, limited as it is, can make the workday materially better. And the platform is not necessarily more powerful, or better able to forge false consci…
Nothing about us Without us’
What Can Feminist Work Be
What Can Feminist Work Be?: A Conversation with WSQ Authors Kathi Weeks and Heather Berg Samantha Pinto (bio), Kathi Weeks (bio), and Heather Berg (bio) One of the calling cards of WSQ is the way it creates rich conversations within subfields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Through its special issue format, WSQ gives us a window into intra- and interdisciplinary thinking and makes reading each issue an event in the field, a recalibrati…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Free Sex
Grounded in sex worker theory, this essay explores paid sex as a confrontation with free sex. Sex worker theorists name an ambivalent relationship to radical feminist thought, finding theoretical affinities in radical feminism's critiques of unpaid heterosexuality while also disidentifying with its whorephobia, whiteness, gender essentialism, and narratives of false conscious. In an invitation for a radical feminism that commits to radical politi…
Une scène n'est qu'un outil marketing
S'appuyant sur une enquête ethnographique par observation et entretien, cet article explore le rôle des sources de revenus complémentaires dans l'économie politique de l'industrie pornographique nord-américaine. Pour de nombreuses actrices de porno, tourner une scène dans un film relève davantage d'une tactique de marketing - visant à valoriser d'autres services plus rémunérateurs - que d'une activité professionnelle principale. Cette tactique pe…
Queer Sex and the Crisis of Capital
Sexuality is not a space protected from the tedium and violence of life under capitalism, argues Christopher Chitty, and neither is it the product of capital's top-down maneuvering. Instead, it is a terrain of class conflict. Chitty's sprawling Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System takes us from early modern Florence to the postwar United States to tell a story about how capital flows shape sex and how, …
Porn labour
If You're Going to Be Beautiful, You Better Be Dangerous
Refusing both sex workers' state-produced vulnerability to violence and the state's monopoly on protection, sex worker radicals articulate community defense as a practice of care. Grounded in interviews with thinkers of the sex worker Left and in sex workers' cultural production, this article explores sex worker community defense with an eye to its relationship to past struggles and contributions to future ones. Chief among those is the abolition…
Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (13 obras) · Sex work and related issues (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (10 obras) · Sex work (7 obras) · Engineering (6 obras)