Gender DynamiX - Stone Butch Blues

Stone Butch Blues

Stone Butch Blues
Author: Leslie Feinberg
Publisher: Alyson Publications
ISBN: 1555838537
Publishing Date: 2004
Pages: 320
Format: Softcover

This compelling first novel follows the sexual travails of lesbian Jess Goldberg in a fine account of coming to terms with the complexities of a transgendered existence.

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About the Author

Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors, and Transgender Liberation, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

Inside Flap Copy

Winner of the American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie-and-Harriet" McCarthyite era and coming out as a young butch lesbian into the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and, ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.

Comments

stone butch blues
Written by Guest on 2005-09-05 04:09:28

Excellnet book! One can really life yourself in, and relate - iven if I never know how it was pre stonewall to do clubbing - or mearly existed as a person before freedom came. More than once the book had me in tears. Lesley is able to write in such a way, using mataphore and words, that you literally feel you are there, with all the characters. A must have for every household!

Stone butch blues
Written by leo on 2005-09-16 14:08:08

Well written novel. Gives the reader some insight in how difficult the past was for people trying to live outside of the gender binary system, and how brave they were to endure what was coming their way.

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