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Buy Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Leslie Feinberg
| | List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $10.17 | | You Save: | $4.78 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 17547 | | Studio: | Alyson Books | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 320 | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2004 | | Publisher: | Alyson Books |
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Product Description
Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. 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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 70 reviews)
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Wonderful 
I needed this book for a class, last minute. It arrived within a matter of days, saving me from getting behind. It was wonderful. :)
May 27, 2008 | |
A Deeply Moving Novel
This novel/memoir chronicles the world of a working class lesbian, gay, and transgendered people from the days before Stonewall to the present. It is a classic and probably the most important book available about transgender issues. I cried reading it on the train.
Feinberg is a committed communist, and some of the scenes involving worker solidarity are a contrived, but the book is well written and deeply moving. The scenes of gay bashing are, I should warn you, horrific, but this is a book very much worth reading.
January 30, 2008 | |
Butch to Butch 
Leslie's book is not easy for many because of the truth behind the story. Butch, by Jay Rayn is a great book based on poignant truth and is now combined(Butch I and Butch II) in its re-release. Get all three. True insight into a Butch's world.
September 20, 2007 | |
essential queer / feminist reading
As a working-class butch dyke, words cannot describe how important this book was to me growing up; there really are very few honest portrayals of blue-collar LGBT people out there (though Dorothy Allison's work also comes to mind). I'm in the middle of re-reading this one for the third time, and it still moves me to tears to see printed on these pages things I've experienced in my own life that I've never seen portrayed so wholly and nakedly anywhere else (if at all). Yes, times have changed - but hatred of the gender-variant hasn't gone away, it's just gotten quieter and more insidious. We genderqueers may not be quite as likely to die or be seriously injured in a hate crime as we used to be, but we are still all too likely to die of the thousand small cuts we receive every day we're out in the world at large (check the modern suicide rate among the gender-variant). If you've ever wondered why this gender thing is so important, or if you're a 'girly man' or manly woman and trying to finally find a story that describes your life, too, check out this book. You'll be hard-pressed to find an accounting of a gender-variant life that's more brutally honest.
June 25, 2007 | |
Stone Butch Blues 
I was required to read this book for a class in college. I would never have picked it otherwise. I learned that these people are just as messed up as the rest of us, fighting and clawing their way through life. It was an honest depiction of lesbian life and I do commend it for this.
March 11, 2007 | |
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