Feminism StudiesHow do this week’s readings prompt us to expand how we discuss and imagine pleasure in the social imaginary?

Readings:1.Introduction Brown Sugar

Theorizing Black Women’s Sexual Labor in Pornography 2.Pornographic encounters and interpretative interventions: Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior

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Disruptions in Respectability: A Roundtable Discussion 4.

Constructing a crisis: porn panics and public health

5.Introduction: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

CONSTANCE PENLEY, CELINE PARREÑAS SHIMIZU, MIREILLE MILLER-YOUNG, and TRISTAN TAORMINO