Pat Califia Książki

When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of woman-to-woman sex. If any book is responsible for the formation of the modern lesbian leather community, this one is it. Despite its graceful language, imaginative scenarios, and abundant humour, the lesbian press trashed Macho Sluts, and it became a focal point for the infamous legal battles between Canada Customs and Little Sister's, the gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver. But readers loved it, and to this day Macho Sluts remains a vital and moving classic that still has the power to educate, radicalize, and expand our notions of the body's potential to provide us with pleasure, pain, and love.

Sex The Politics of Transgenderism is Califia's meticulously researched book based on an astute reading of the available literature and in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened their lives, minds, hearts, and bedrooms to the gaze of strangers." 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 occupying women's space, the Christian Right's backlash against transsexuals, and the appropriation of the berdache and other differently-gendered by gay historians to prove the universal existance of homosexuality. Finally, Sex Changes explores the future of gender.

The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the first major guide to BDSM in a generation--a bold and sexy collection of essays that run the gamut from expert how-to tutorials to provocative essays that delve into complex questions about desire, power, and pleasure. The book brings together diverse voices from the kink community in an unprecedented way: each chapter is written by a different sexuality/BDSM educator. Divided into two sections, the first section features thorough, thoughtful pieces--on everything from flogging to bondage--packed with techniques and beautifully illustrated with original images from artist Katie Diamond. The second section is dedicated to role-playing fantasies and personal manifestos. From age play to masochism, these chapters cover some of the edgiest, most taboo and controversial elements of kink in depth. The Ultimate Guide to Kink features the expertise of renowned educators writing passionately on their favorite subjects, including Patrick Califia, Midori, Laura Antoniou, Barbara Carrellas, Lee Harrington, Jack Rinella, Lolita Wolf, Madison Young, Hardy Haberman, Felice Shays, Ignacio Rivera, Sarah Sloane, Mollena Williams, FifthAngel, and Edge. It will educate, inspire, and challenge both newcomers to the world of kink and experienced BDSM players.

Pat Califia ist eine Pionierin der Radical-Sex-Bewegung in San Francisco. Ihre SM-Erzählungen sind vielfältig, fantasievoll und politisch, sprengen Geschlechterrollen und konventionelle Sexualität. Frauen stehen im Mittelpunkt, brechen aus ihren Rollen aus und erleben überraschende Wendungen in ihren erotischen Geschichten.

Set in the bleak and not-too-distant future of a culture in its death throes, Doc and Fluff careens through the lives of a pair of outlaw women struggling to survive on the road. Packed with true love, rough sex, and over-the-top adventure, this popular novel is now available with a new introduction to the wild world of Pat Califia's imagination.

Als Pionier*in der Radical-Sex-Bewegung in San Francisco war Patrick Califia bahnbrechend. Seine SM-Erzählungen auf Pornos zu reduzieren, wäre fatal. Sie bestechen nicht nur durch Fantasie, Humor und eine Vielfalt der literarischen Gattungen, sondern überraschen auch mit Zärtlichkeit und Sehnsucht, wo man keine vermutet. Califias Texte sind stets auch politisch lesbar; immer werden die Grenzen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und gängigen Rollenmustern gesprengt. Frauen spielen die Hauptrolle – und fallen aus ihrer Rolle heraus: Die automatische Sexsklavin begehrt gegen ihren Meister auf, um mit ihrer Mistress davonzulaufen. Ein modernes Rotkäppchen verwandelt sich erst in eine Domina, um dann Freiheit in einem Leben als Wolf zu finden. Eine Butch wird aus ihrer coolen Beobachterposition her­ausgerissen, um drei queeren Stripperinnen als persönliches Spielzeug zu dienen. Und die geheimnisvolle Besucherin eines SM-Clubs weiß diesen Ort, wo Rollenspiele und die Kunst der Maskierung zelebriert werden, für ihre eigenen, besonderen Zwecke zu nutzen … Grenzüberschreitende erotische Storys, mit denen Califia lesbische Literaturgeschichte schrieb.