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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Whores and Other Feminists about Strippers, sex, Along with the genre: Arts & Photography, History & Criticism?
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conversations.value: 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.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Whores and Other Feminists
  In May 1993, FFE held a day-long workshop on feminism and pornography, which sparked a series of periodic educational seminars. Topics have included sexual harassment, the work of antipornography activist Catharine MacKinnon, the controversy over rap lyrics, and censorship in cyberspace. One of the most effective was "Women and Sex: On Stage, On Film, On Our Own Terms" on November 23, 1993. It featured censored photographer Barbara Alper, feminist erotic filmmaker Candida Royalle, performance artist Annie Sprinkle, and sex-industry workers' rights activist Veronica Vera. Also in 1993, FFE issued a brochure on pornography, the first in an ongoing series. Since then, this series has presented free-speech analyses of sexual harassment, arts censorship, and censorship of the Internet. In all these areas, FFE argues against government intervention that curtails rights in the name of "protecting" women. Our position is that it is always disempowered groups (which include women and especially feminists) who have the most to fear from censorship, and therefore the right you suppress may turn out to be your own.
  Since FFE resists attempts at censorship, it has always supported women in the sex industry faced with the many government attempts to censor or zone them out of business. But more than that, FFE has from its inception spoken against the view that feminism is antisexual. Its letter against S. 1521 said:
  Women do not require "protection" from explicit sexual materials. It is no goal of feminism to restrict individual choices or stamp out sexual imagery... there is no agreement or feminist code as to what images are distasteful or even sexist. It is the right and responsibility of each woman to read, view or produce the sexual material she chooses without the intervention of the state "for her own good."
  Associated Press. "Prostitute: HIV Did Not Deter Her." In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS Clearinghouse, AIDS Daily Summary, April 25, 1994, p. B3.
  Nagle, Jill (writing as Vashti Zabatinsky). "Interparadigmatics: Toward a Dynamic, Polyvisional Epistemology/Praxis of Queer Liberation." Unpublished paper presented at Queer Frontiers: The Fifth Annual National Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference. Los Angeles, 1995.
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conversations.value: Whores and Other Feminists
  In May 1993, FFE held a day-long workshop on feminism and pornography, which sparked a series of periodic educational seminars. Topics have included sexual harassment, the work of antipornography activist Catharine MacKinnon, the controversy over rap lyrics, and censorship in cyberspace. One of the most effective was "Women and Sex: On Stage, On Film, On Our Own Terms" on November 23, 1993. It featured censored photographer Barbara Alper, feminist erotic filmmaker Candida Royalle, performance artist Annie Sprinkle, and sex-industry workers' rights activist Veronica Vera. Also in 1993, FFE issued a brochure on pornography, the first in an ongoing series. Since then, this series has presented free-speech analyses of sexual harassment, arts censorship, and censorship of the Internet. In all these areas, FFE argues against government intervention that curtails rights in the name of "protecting" women. Our position is that it is always disempowered groups (which include women and especially feminists) who have the most to fear from censorship, and therefore the right you suppress may turn out to be your own.
  Since FFE resists attempts at censorship, it has always supported women in the sex industry faced with the many government attempts to censor or zone them out of business. But more than that, FFE has from its inception spoken against the view that feminism is antisexual. Its letter against S. 1521 said:
  Women do not require "protection" from explicit sexual materials. It is no goal of feminism to restrict individual choices or stamp out sexual imagery... there is no agreement or feminist code as to what images are distasteful or even sexist. It is the right and responsibility of each woman to read, view or produce the sexual material she chooses without the intervention of the state "for her own good."
  Associated Press. "Prostitute: HIV Did Not Deter Her." In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS Clearinghouse, AIDS Daily Summary, April 25, 1994, p. B3.
  Nagle, Jill (writing as Vashti Zabatinsky). "Interparadigmatics: Toward a Dynamic, Polyvisional Epistemology/Praxis of Queer Liberation." Unpublished paper presented at Queer Frontiers: The Fifth Annual National Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference.
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conversations.value: Do you know four more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Women do not require "protection" from explicit sexual materials. It is no goal of feminism to restrict individual choices or stamp out sexual imagery... there is no agreement or feminist code as to what images are distasteful or even sexist. It is the right and responsibility of each woman to read, view or produce the sexual material she chooses without the intervention of the state "for her own good."
  Associated Press. "Prostitute: HIV Did Not Deter Her." In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS Clearinghouse, AIDS Daily Summary, April 25, 1994, p. B3.
  Nagle, Jill (writing as Vashti Zabatinsky). "Interparadigmatics: Toward a Dynamic, Polyvisional Epistemology/Praxis of Queer Liberation." Unpublished paper presented at Queer Frontiers: The Fifth Annual National Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference. Los Angeles, 1995.
  Wallace, J. I., A. Weiner, A. Steinberg, and B. Hoffman. "Fellatio Is a Significant Risk Behavior for Acquiring AIDS among New York City Streetwalking Prostitutes." In International Conference on AIDS, Amsterdam, 1992 (abstract no. PoC 4196).
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conversations.value: Do you know the last four paragraphs?
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