Jo Weldon's Bibliography
This is a list of books I've referred to when writing papers. I'm still expanding this bibliography; some of my books are in boxes. As you'll see, I'm particularly interested in pornography. In my opinion, most of the feminist theory about pornography can be extrapolated to their positions on stripping, female dominance, prostitution, and other forms of sex work. However, feminist theory is not my only interest, nor do I think it should be the only concern of sex workers' rights activists.
Listings in bold are particularly relevant to interpreting media ethics. Above all, I recommend How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff. It WILL make you smarter!
Allen, Robert C. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque in American Culture. London and Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Assiter, Allison, and Avedon Carol, eds. Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism. Boulder, Colorado: Pluto Press, 1993.
Associated Press, The. Stylebook and Libel Manual. Sixth Trade Edition (always locate the most recent edition, which this is not). New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996.
Baird, Robert M., and Stuart E. Rosenbaum, eds. Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace? Amherst: Prometheus, 1998.
Blumen, Jonathan. "Humans and Their Pornography." The Ethical Spectacle, November 1995. On-line at http://www.spectacle.org/index.html. Accessed 10 October 1996.
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Califia, Pat. Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex. Pittsburgh and San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1994.
Carter, Angela. The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
Cerf, Christopher, and Victor Navasky. The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation. New York and Toronto: Villard, 1998. Question Authority.
Chancer, Lynn S. Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism. University of California Press, 1998.
Chapkis, Wendy. Live Sex Acts.
Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Coote, Anna, ed. The Welfare of Citizens: Developing New Social Rights. London: IPPR/Rivers Oram Press, 1992.
DeGrazia, Edward. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius. New York: Random House, 1992. reviewed
Delacoste, Frederique, and Priscilla Alexander, eds. Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1987.
Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siecle Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Dubeck, Paula J., and Kathryn Borman, eds. Women and Work: A Reader. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1997
Duggan, Lisa, and Nan D. Hunter. Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Popular Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Contains the entire text of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce brief.
Dworkin, Andrea. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: Dutton, 1989.
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 159 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1979.
Ellul, Jacques. Propoganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. New York: Vintage Books, 1965.
French, Dolores. Working: My Life as a Prostitute.
Gardner, Carol Brooks. Passing By: Gender and Public Harassment. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, and London, England: 1995.
Goldberg, Steven. Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance. Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1993.
Gornick, Vivian, and Barbara K. Moran, eds. Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness. New York: Signet Press, 1971.
Grant, Linda. Sexing the Millenium: Women and the Sexual Revolution. New York: Grove Press, 1994.
Hagan, Margaret A. Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice. New York: Regan Books, 1997.
Hentoff, Nat. Free Speech for Me-But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.
Huff, Darrell. How to Lie With Statistics. New York: Norton and Co., Inc., 1954.
Hunt, Lynn. The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800. New York: Zone Books, 1996.
International Prostitutes Collective. Some Mother's Daughter: the hidden movement of prostitute women against violence. London: Crossroads, 1999.
Itzin, Catherine, ed. Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Janus, Sam, Ph.D., Barbara Bess, M.D., and Carol Saltus. A Sexual Profile of Men in Power. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1977.