Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
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Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography “Asiduously researched, elegantly written.”―Magaret Talbot, The New Yorker Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life―an offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950�)―unerground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist―sh made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten when the white-hot “sewars”cleaved feminism and realigned American politics when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus when the sex industry of the 1970s and 󈨔radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire.The sexual revolution was Royalle’swar―evn when other avowed feminists exited the field or became her opponents―an pornography emerged as the arena in which she would wage it. With the founding of her adult film company, Femme Productions, in 1984, Royalle became an owner of the means of pornographic production, infusing her sets with the ideals of labor feminism. On-screen and off-, she was, by turns, exuberant and thoughtful, self-possessed and gleefully shameless. A trailblazer who lived along the cultural fault lines of her generation, she danced at Woodstock, marched for women’sliberation, survived the AIDS crisis, and became a talk show regular, interviewed by Phil Donahue, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Morton Downey Jr., Jane Pauley, and many others. As a performer, director, producer, and writer, she moved the needle of her industry. But she never