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Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg List Price: $14.95 Price: $10.76 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. You Save: $4.19 (28%)

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:
The Butch Bible	Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
This book reads much more like a autobiography than a fiction, but this book is a must read whatever you read it as. If you identify as butch, ftm, or a masculine presenting genderqueer you are likely to find this book matching the way you feel many times over. If you know a butch, you will begin to understand their identity better buy reading this book and experiencing the way that society treats them. If you know any gay or lesbian or otherwise queer identified people then you can understand the history and what their rights mean to them by seeing the daily differences between their lives and the straight world. If you don't know anyone who identifies as one of these people then this is a chance to understand why the rights debates are so important to us. Beyond that it is a story about a person. A character that is easy to identify with and to root for. I recommend this story to everyone that ever asks me about fiction books or queer lit.
You will cry	Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
If you are Butch or have ever known or loved a Butch, this book will make you cry. The story tumbles out in one unending pouring, and that is probably how you will read it. There are tons of anthologies and gender study books, but Stone Butch Blues is the only novel I know of written with with so much grit and longing. It is a rare courageous glimpse into the struggles of an impoverished Butch dyke who's strong voice would ordinarily not have much reach. I love this book and often purchase extra copies to give away to other Butches and Femmes. It renders our history beautifully, and for that reason I consider Feinberg's first novel to be a gift to the world.
Never received the book	Customer Rating: 1 out of 5
I am very upset about the purchase. I purchased over a month ago and I never received the item. I tried contacting the seller for getting my refund but he never responded to my email.
spell all the way down to fight	Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
It's a tender and precise written novel about finding out that it is not worth to find a place,to search for a place among all the narrow minded hoi polloi-section which is practically the consistence of every village, not only in the US. And how the great bars and cities and the waken nights help you to not only get along but fight for your desires which are not suggested by the police or state or church built up in the normal peoples heads.
Very hard to put down	Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
I read this book in two sittings. The tone is conversational and the content is fascinating. The author really sucks you into the butch/femme culture, a world many of us don't know anything about. Incredibly emotive and perfectly accessible, I'm very glad I read this novel.