Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket,. Candida Royalle. New York: W.W. Norton & Company:, 2024. First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 528 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Candida Royalle "Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)--underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist - she 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 "sex wars" 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 '80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire."