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Winner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Soci...
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  • 18 February 2020
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Winner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association

Honorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association

The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living

The erotic webcam industry, also known as “camming,” is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowerment—and, as she compellingly argues, pleasure.

Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet. She provides an inside look at the public and private shows between cam models and their customers, from exotic dancing and pornographic videos, to masturbation shows and erotic chatrooms.

A fascinating, much-needed glimpse into the lives of cam models, Camming takes us behind the webcam lens to experience the power of erotic labor in the twenty-first century.

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Price: $94.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: NYU Press
Imprint: NYU Press
Publication Date: 18 February 2020
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781479842964
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Prostitution & Sex Trade
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"Angela Jones’s Camming offers a roller-coaster ride through the often and, according to mainstream norms, necessarily hidden world of online erotic performances and relationships, camera-guided sex work, and the joys and downsides of its many professional possibilities ... Jones’s book provides a lens through which we can witness what happens on both sides of cameras in the (online) sex industries as well as contemplate our taken-for-granted norms and biases about sexualities, as triggers of both consumption and discrimination or exclusion (e.g., via criminalization)."
Angela Jones is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. They are the author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry and co-author of Black Lives Matter: A Reference Book.