The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader [Paperback]

Pat Califia (Editor), Robin Sweeney (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2000

The field of lesbian S/M erotica has no equal to the bestselling author and cult icon Pat Califia. Now she and author/activist Robin Sweeney have compiled the definitive readers for anyone interested in the cutting edge of radical sexuality, with fiction and nonfiction from the leasing writers of erotica.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: Alyson Books; 1st edition (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555832814
• ISBN-13: 978-1555832810
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,936,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Destined to be a Classic, August 1, 2003

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Todd Hawley (San Francisco CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader (Paperback)

This "sequel" to the excellent Coming to Power which appeared in the mid 1990s picks up where Coming to Power left off and gives the reader an idea of how far the woman's leather community has come since the early 1980s and at the same time how far it still must go to gain acceptance outside its own community. It also details how fragmented its own community is, but then again this is true of all parts of the leather community; het, gay, bi, transgendered, and/or lesbian.

Filled with hot fiction, poetry, and some well-written non-fiction essays on various SM topics, I found this book to be informative and thought-provoking, even if it is now a bit dated. Of note too are the excellent essays on histories of various US women's groups featured in the book's last section. This is a book any leather community member with an interest in our past and present should read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the original, June 10, 2003

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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader (Paperback)

This second "coming to power" book about lesbian SM has a lot of fiction in it and I was disappointed. There are lots of fiction collections of lesbian SM but the first "Coming to Power" was ground breaking because it tackled SM in a straight forward and honest yet controversal way when the debate about SM, lesbians, and feminism was first raging loudly. The stories are great and the articles are wonderful I was just hoping for the same sort of information as the first book. Perhaps the first did so well with communicating its message, that the second could me more varied.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for begginers and profetionals as well, February 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader (Paperback)

The book has 3 major parts: - short stories: - poems and - articals. I found the articals being the most interesting and mind-opener part in the book.It give the reader both a personal-expiriance view and the academic - politic view. To me the book gave a lot to think about , let alone dreem...