Stone Butch Blues

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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues
Author : Leslie Feinberg
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Language : English
Release Date : 02 May 2024
ISBN : 9781459608450
Pages : 582 pages
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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Book PDF Summary

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? Thats 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 1950s, 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.

Stone Butch Blues

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

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? Thats 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

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