Book Review: The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Our Society by Bernadette Barton

Abstract

traditional academic canon, such as “Black feminists [. . .] attuned to the afterlives of slavery” (p. 152). The result is a theoretically sophisticated book that charts new territory within the literature. One downside is that Suspicion would likely be difficult to read for students and scholars unfamiliar with Charles’ theoretical foundations. The book is, however, well suited for graduate-level courses and scholars interested in the intersection of gender, race, and vaccine hesitancy.