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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution [electronic resource] : A History from Below

Jane Kamensky2024
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Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution. Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950–2015)—underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist—she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot “sex wars” cleaved feminism and realigned American politics; when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus; when the sex industry of the 1970s and ’80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire....
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United States : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (544 pages,)
Audience:
General / adult
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781324002093
Language:
English
BRN:
527208
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