Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

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<DIV><P>Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.</P><P>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.</P><P>Leslie Feinberg is also the author of <I>Trans Liberation</I>, <I>Trans Gender Warriors </I>and <I>Transgender Liberation</I>, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.</p></DIV>