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....
Main title:
Author:
Jane Kamensky, Author
Imprint:
United States : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (544 pages,)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781324002093
Language:
English
BRN:
527208
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