Erotic Resistance The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco

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"With heart, flesh, and soul, this excellent book is committed to women of color, queer women, cis women, and trans women who wield a powerful erotic resistance through sexual performance. Along with rich engagements with critical performance and visual theory, we are treated to excellent storytelling, an innovative queer herstoriography, a kick-ass feminist porn archive, and the author herself as flexibly scholar, artist, and “alchemized gendered being.” A feminist ethno-pornography and porno-ethnography, Erotic Resistance care-fully engages with those who exploit and repurpose the performativity of heterosexuality as a tool for resilience, creative resistance, and financial gain. Here you will meet legendary burlesquers, strippers, artists, and activists working in the sex industry who intersect practices of performance, art, and activism to offer deeply sensual and explicitly scholarly innovation." —Rebecca Schneider, author of Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment

"More than a history strip and burlesque subcultures, more than a participant-observer ethnography of an underground community of dancers, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s Erotic Resistance is a call to action. It remembers the radical potentials of San Francisco’s storied past, not with a sense of nostalgia, but in service to a present moment that seeks to counter the city’s hollowing out by advanced capitalism, and to fill that evacuated space with something better." —Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

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