Whores and Other Feminists
Strippers, peepshow dancers, and porn stars trade spiked heels for footnotes while demonstrating  their often overlooked ability to engage in scholarly discourse in this collection of essays focusing on the  subject of feminism as practiced by those who call themselves "sex workers." Along with the  first-person accounts by such underground luminaries as Nina Hartley, Tracy Quan, and Annie Sprinkle,  are forays into the sex dens by a number of academics. The writing is frank, though hardly pornographic,  and many of the points raised and discussed are treated with more seriousness and considerably more  insight than they usually are in the mainstream press.