Labouring porn studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13086357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Berg (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 75-79 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Porn Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23268743.2013.874621 |
| OpenAlex | W2067564109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 12 |
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 porn based in Marxist principles requires that we take porn seriously as work, recognize that workers both know their own conditions and are best equipped to address them, and attend to the laboured dynamics of the interview process itself
Capitalism · Marxist philosophy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Pornography · Scholarship · Sex work · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Precarious Creativity
The diverse economies of online pornography
Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery
Enabling and managing commodified authentic experiences
Imagining markets and crafting value
Workers and publics
Porn scholars coming together
Planetary sex markets
A scene is just a marketing tool’
Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries
Performing labour
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |