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Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying. Three days ago I began this book, today I finished it. 300 |a 301;|c 22 cm. Those lessons don't die. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. I would reccomend this book to anyone as it is a brilliant read. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2010 - Coming out (Sexual orientation) - 580 pages. Were you surprised by the way violence was portrayed in this book, and how it was woven into this world? [Feinberg is] a historian, an activist, a relentless bridge-builder. Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago. Since that time, the term ‘gender’ has increasingly been used to mean the sexes, rather than gender expressions. Please try again. And aside from all that, it was a moving story of one person's struggle to find love, acceptance, and safety in a world (and a body) that makes that all the more complicated. 11 Reviews. In March of 1993, transgender activist Leslie Feinberg published a coming of age novel titled Stone Butch Blues. I pair it often with Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights, which has interviews with activists organized by decade and is like talking to your ancestors. It's personal, bold, honest and expressed in the most touching and fearless way possible. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Must read for all butches and those who love them, Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2010. It is the fictional story of a young woman named Jess Goldberg and the many problems she faces growing up as a butch in the late1960’s. That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. The main characters of Stone Butch Blues novel are John, Emma. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2016. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a great literary read, even outside the GLBT community. I missed zie by a few years: Leslie Feinberg died three months after I moved to the US. It gives a first hand look at how Lesbians and Gay Men were treated by police and by society. This is story telling at its finest, but society at its most honest. Posted on April 30, 2015 by Hilda Abigail Millan. The narrator of Stone Butch Blues both walks achingly alone and tells I never get tired or bored reading it over and over again. Stone Butch Blues has 3 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. “Stone Butch Blues is the queer great American novel— it will be read, loved, studied, and denounced for a long, long time.” —Holly Hughes, performance artist and author of Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler “Reading this book changed my life. Stone Butch Blues is such an important novel. 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