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About the Editors and Contributors

Lindsay Coleman is an academic, independent film producer, and private
tutor based in Melbourne, Australia. In 2004 he achieved graduate entry to
the Notre Dame School of Medicine in Fremantle, ultimately accepting a
scholarship to study for his doctorate in Media/Film Studies at the University
of Melbourne. Lindsay has been published in such books as The War Body
on Screen, Taking South Park Seriously, Undead in the West, Gilmore Girls
and the Politics of Identity, Doctor Who in Time and Space, and Bloodlust
and Dust. He is the editor of Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema. He is
also currently working on a sequel to the 1993 documentary Visions of Light,
as well as books on film composing, film editing, and cinematography.

Jacob M. Held is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of
Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas. His primary
research interests focus on legal and political theory, nineteenth-century Ger-
man philosophy, and applied ethics. In addition, he works extensively at the
intersection of philosophy and popular culture, most recently editing Roald
Dahl and Philosophy: A Little Nonsense Now and Then (2014).

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Louise Antony is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachu-
setts, Amherst. She earned her BA in philosophy at Syracuse University in
1975, and her PhD in philosophy at Harvard University in 1982. She has
research interests in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, feminist theory,
philosophy of language, and the philosophy of religion. She recently edited
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
(2007). She was coeditor, with Charlotte Witt, of A Mind of One’s Own:

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Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (1990), and contributed to that
volume her essay, “Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized
Epistemology.” She is currently at work on a monograph about reasons for
action and reasons for belief.

Joy Simmons Bradley is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Duquesne Uni-
versity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest are critical philoso-
phies of race, feminism, queer theory, and existentialist phenomenology. Her
work has been published in the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black
Experience, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, and the Journal of Theoretical and
Philosophical Criminology.

Susan J. Brison is associate professor and chair of the Philosophy Depart-
ment at Dartmouth University. She is the author of Aftermath: Violence and
the Remaking of a Self (2002) and numerous scholarly articles on sexual
violence and freedom of expression.

Ariane Cruz is assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at
the Pennsylvania State University. She holds a PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley, in African Diaspora Studies with a designated emphasis
in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her teaching at Penn State includes
classes on feminist visual culture, racialized sexuality, and representations of
race, gender, and sexuality. Her research interests include images of black
female sexuality, black visuality, and pornography. She is currently working
on a manuscript exploring black women, BDSM, and pornography. Her work
appears in Camera Obscura, The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Pro-
ducing Pleasure (2013), Hypatia, and Women & Performance.

Taine Duncan is assistant professor of philosophy and director of the Gen-
der Studies program at the University of Central Arkansas. When she is not
teaching and researching, she remains committed to community and public
activism for issues of gender, sex, and sexuality. She also loves books, film,
and television, so she likes thinking about the ways in which gender, identity,
and media representation (or misrepresentation) interact.

Matthew B. Ezzell is assistant professor of sociology at James Madison
University. His research, teaching, and activism focus on the reproduction of
and resistance to inequality and oppression. He has a background in Wom-
en’s Studies and has been active in the rape crisis and anti-violence move-
ments for over seventeen years.

Nina Hartley is a pioneering feminist worker, using her body in the service
of promoting a sexually sane and literate society. She is thrilled to see a new

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generation of sex-positive performer/activists spread the good news about
sex. For the past thirty years her commitment to the importance of sexual
autonomy has fueled her career in adult entertainment. As a performer, direc-
tor, writer, educator, public speaker, and feminist thinker she’s traveled the
world to deliver her message. She believes that sexual freedom is a funda-
mental human right and welcomes the new social media opportunities for
spreading her message to the widest number of people. Hartley is the author
of Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex (2006). Putting to use her BS in nurs-
ing, she and her husband, I. S. Levine, have produced the million-selling sex-
ed video series collectively known as The Nina Hartley Guides. Still active in
front of the camera, she and her husband live in Los Angeles.

Jennifer Hornsby is professor of philosophy at Birkbeck, University of
London, and codirector of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Uni-
versity of Oslo. Her main interests are in philosophy of action, mind, and
language, metaphysics, and feminism in philosophy; she has published work
in all these areas.

Katrien Jacobs is associate professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She has lectured and published widely about pornography, censorship, and
media activism in Hong Kong and global media environments. She is also
working on long-term research projects in visual anthropology that detail the
impact of Japanese animation on Southeast Asian youth cultures and social
networks. She is the author of three books about Internet culture, art, and
sexuality: Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art (2005), Net-
porn: DIY Web Culture and SexualPolitics (2007), and People’s Pornogra-
phy: Sex and Surveillance on then Chinese Internet (2011). Her work can be
found on www.libidot.org/blog.

Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of
Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource
Center in Austin. He is the author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide
to Constructive Dialogue (2013); All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive
Path to the Prophetic Voice (2009); Getting Off: Pornography and the End
of Masculinity (2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism
and White Privilege (2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim
Our Humanity (2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the
Margins to the Mainstream (2002). Jensen is also coproducer of the docu-
mentary film, Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing
(2009), which chronicles the life and philosophy of the longtime radical
activist.

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Natalie Nenadic is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of
Kentucky. Her research is in the history of philosophy (especially Heidegger,
Arendt, and Hegel), social and political philosophy, and philosophy of law,
especially global justice; she brings these resources to the contemporary
ethical challenges of sexual violence, pornography, and genocide. The recipi-
ent of a 2013–2014 American Association of University Women Fellowship,
her recent publications include “Heidegger, Arendt, and Eichmann in Jerusa-
lem” (Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy) and “Genocide
and Sexual Atrocities: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and Karad-
zic in New York” (Philosophical Topics).

Susanna Paasonen is professor of media studies at the University of Turku,
Finland. With an interest in media theory, sexuality, and affect, she is the
author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (2011) as well
as coeditor of Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (with Kaari-
na Nikunen and Laura Saarenmaa, 2007), Working with Affect in Feminist
Readings: Disturbing Differences (with Marianne Liljeström, 2010) and Net-
worked Affect (with Ken Hillis and Michael Petit, 2014).

Shira Tarrant is associate professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. She is the
author of several books including Men and Feminism (2009); Fashion Talks:
Undressing the Power of Style (2012); When Sex Became Gender (2006);
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (2013); New Views on
Pornography (forthcoming); and 21st Century Sex: Contemporary Issues in
Pleasure and Safety (forthcoming). Her commentary is featured on global
media including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, NBC, Forbes, Chi-
cago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Sydney Morning Herald, and on
radio stations in Los Angeles, New York, Berkeley, Houston, and elsewhere
around the country.