The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism
In 1988, the author and radical sex activist Patrick Califia published Macho Sluts, a collection of lesbian sadomasochism-themed erotic fiction that provided visibility and erotic legitimacy for the modern lesbian leather community. Using the narrative conventions of the romance novel to construct p...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Popular Romance Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jprstudies.org/2014/02/the-political-uses-of-lesbian-romance-fiction-reading-patrick-califias-macho-sluts-as-a-response-to-1980s-anti-pornography-feminismby-carolyn-bronstein/ |