Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Word about Names ix
5. The Principal Cast xi
6. Prologue. Setting the Stage 1
7. CHAPTER ONE. Airing Dirty Laundry 16
8. CHAPTER TWO. The Genre Goes Hard-Core: A Brief History 44
9. CHAPTER THREE. Talk as Work: Routinizing the Production Process 80
10. CHAPTER FOUR. Talk as Show (a Show of Emotion) 114
11. CHAPTER FIVE. The Other Side of the Camera: Motives and Misgivings 148
12. CHAPTER SIX. Inside the Fun House 176
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up? 204
14. CHAPTER EIGHT. Trash, Class, and Cultural Hierarchy 242
15. EPILOGUE. Airing Another Kind of Dirty Laundry: Confessions of a Feminist Fieldworker 275
16. REFERENCES 289
17. INDEX 301