{"product_id":"macho-sluts","title":"Macho Sluts","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia's \u003ci\u003eMacho Sluts,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 (and nobody has ever done it any better). If any book is responsible for the formation of the modern lesbian leather community, this one is it.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its graceful language, imaginative scenarios, and abundant humour, the lesbian press trashed \u003ci\u003eMacho Sluts,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMacho Sluts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition, part of Arsenal's Little Sister's Classics series resurrecting classics of LGBT literature, includes a new foreword by the author, and an introduction by Wendy Chapkis, a Professor of Sociology and Women \u0026amp; Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. There are also essays by Jim Deva, co-owner of Little Sister's, and Joseph Arvay, chief counsel for the bookstore during its trial against Canada Customs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Califia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44733315383589,"sku":"9781551522609","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a88f6404-6852-420c-bef5-69250dbfa549.jpg?v=1679348261","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/macho-sluts","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}