Ordeal (autobiography)
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Author | Linda Lovelace |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Pornography |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Publication date | 1980 |
Media type | |
Pages | 253 pp. |
ISBN | 0806506873 |
OCLC | 5674846 |
Ordeal is a 1980 autobiography by the former pornographic actress Linda Lovelace (real name: Linda Boreman), star of the film Deep Throat, a seminal 1972 film at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn. In the autobiography, Lovelace recounts that she was raped during her career in the porn industry.[1][2][3]
See also[]
- Anti-pornography movement
- Rape pornography
References[]
- ^ Schultz, David; Vile, John R. (2015). The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America. Routledge. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-317-45713-8.
- ^ MacKinnon, Catharine A. (1987). Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law. Harvard University Press. p. 10. ISBN 0-674-29873-X.
- ^ Mock, Erin Lee (18 August 2017). "The Porn Star and the Polygraph: Linda Lovelace and the Truth of the Female Body". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Routledge. 34 (6): 560–582. doi:10.1080/10509208.2016.1234899. ISSN 1050-9208. S2CID 192126743.
Categories:
- American autobiographies
- Anti-pornography feminism
- Books about rape
- Non-fiction books about pornography
- 1980 non-fiction books
- Sex book stubs
- Pornography stubs