Hardcore From The Heart

Author(s): Sprinkle Annie

Feminism

Presents a number of the author's key performance texts and essays, and interviews with artists who have worked closely with her over the years, together with a critical introduction and commentaries. By locating her discourse on her own body, she renders exploitation impossible and refers to herself as a "post-porn modernist".


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"'The book is entertaining and provocative, and should delight any serious student of feminist performance art.' -- Publishers Weekly, April 2001 'Hardcore from the Heart serves as a scholarly introduction to Sprinkle's oeuvre by including essays, interviews with collaborators, and performance texts. Recommended for academic libraries.' -- Library Journal, July 2001 'Fascinating....Sprinkle constantly pushes her readers to consider new ideas and new ways of seeing sexuality, sex work and pornography.' -- Lamda Book Report, February 2002"

Annie Sprinkle is an internationally known performance artist, sex worker, writer and photographer. She has toured and lectured throughout the United States, Australia and Europe. Gabrielle Cody is Associate Professor of Drama at Vassar College in New York.

Foreword: Ooouuuuhhh, Rebecca, I Love It When You Talk; Academic, by Rebecca Schneider; Introduction: Sacred Bazoombas, by Gabrielle Cody; PART I. Actions, Rituals, Performances; Strip-Speak: Nurse Sprinkle's Sex Education Class; Metamorphosexual Mud-Bath Ritual: A Private Performance; Metamorphosex; Peace in Bed; Liberty Love Boat; Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn; Commentary: Annie Sprinkle from Reel to Reel; PART II. Pornographos: Writings of a Prostitute; My Brushes and Crushes with the Law; Dear Friends and Lovers at 848; You've Come a Long Way Baby: Twelve Steps to Cure Sex Worker; Burn Out; Commentary: A Labor of Love; PART III. Interviews: A Movable Feast; Annie's Breakfast with Veronica Vera: The Art of Sex Work; Lunch at the Art/Life Institute: A Conversation with Annie Sprinkle, Linda Montano, Barbara Carellas and Gabrielle Cody; Dinner with Richard Schnechner and Gabrielle Cody: She Wanted a Better Life; Annie's Dessert with May Thyme, an Anti-Porn Feminist; Gabrielle's Midnight Snack with Monika Treaut; Outroduction; Selected Bibliography and Filmography.

General Fields

  • : 9780826490698
  • : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • : April 2006
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sprinkle Annie
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : 792.028082
  • : 144
  • : Illustrations, ports.