Sapphistry: The book of lesbian sexuality

Politics & Social Sciences

Califia-Rice, Patrick

Social Sciences

Naiad Press

“Califia writes from the place where Doors frontman Jim Morrison wrote from—a strange, erotic new wild, wild West.”—Chicago Free PressBikers, hustlers, cops, leathermen, bears, and even a vampire are just a few of the hard men you’ll meet in this mind-blowing collection of searing, balls-to-the-wall, bad-to-the-bone erotic writing by the legendary Patrick Califia. All we can say is, damn, that’s hot!Patrick Califia is a noted pornographer and cultural critic whose writing and activism have revolutionized queer sex. Among his most noted books are Coming to Power, Macho Sluts, Melting Point, No Mercy, and Speaking Sex to Power.

Hard Men

Literature & Fiction

Califia, Patrick

United States

Alyson Pubns

Hailed "a revolutionary antidote to America's growing sexual conservatism," Patrick Califia is the most outspoken and intelligent commentator on sexual politics writing today. Following the acclaimed publication of Public Sex and Sex Changes, Califia once again exposes American mainstream culture with unrivaled brillance and integrity. As controversial in writing about the private sphere as the public, Califia speaks intimately of changing his gender identy from female to male and becoming a parent in a two-fathered household. Speaking Sex to Power takes the reader on a remarkable intellectual journey with one of America's most audacious thinkers.

Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex

Self-Help

Cleis Press

Pat Califia needs no introduction for lesbian and gay readers. His writings on sexuality, pornography, censorship, S/M and other controversial topics have earned him the reputation of a fearless defender of the rights of gays and lesbians and a fearless intellectual adversary. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism is Califia’s meticulously researched analysis of the contemporary history of transsexuality. Based on in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened their lives, minds, hearts, and bedrooms to the gaze of strangers," this book combines a well thought-out chronology with Pat Califia’s hallmark candor and insight. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of early transgender pioneers like Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris, Renee Richards and Mark Rees, contemporary transgender activists like Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein, and partners of transgendered people like Minnie Bruce Pratt. Califia scrutinizes feminist resistance to transsexuals, the Christian Right’s backlash, and the appropriation of the berdache and other differently-gendered people by gay historians. Finally, Sex Changes explores the future of gender.

Sex Changes: Transgender Politics

Califia, Pat

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