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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is an amazing book that everyone should read. It surpasses time when is shows the struggle that the main character continues to go through all through the years. It also show that gender and sexuality are an ever evolving process and are not always as black and white as a lot of people want to make it out to be. It made me cry and laugh. (  )ehough75 | Apr 20, 2009 |   Read it for class (the same sexuality in literature or something class). It's a heartbreaking story, and I'm glad I read it, since it helped "broaden my horizons". But the author and I just had such different worldviews that despite feeling much sympathy for her, I couldn't really empathize. That isn't to say the author is a bad writer, just that her experiences are so far out there for me that I just couldn't breach that disconnect... (  )litalex | Feb 6, 2009 | Perhaps the most influential book I've read, this one turned my world upside-down in the most wonderful of ways. A semi-autobiographical novel that follows a butch from early teens through adulthood, this book is accessible to anyone regardless of their connection, or lack thereof, to the butch or butch-femme world. ( )aglaia531 | Feb 3, 2009 | 1  "Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the 'Ozzie and Harriet' McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different." -- Back cover. PFLAGCantonSLC | Apr 19, 2008 |   This semi-autobiographical novel is heartbreaking, not only because of the marginalization, hate and abuse the narrator faces, but because through all of it the narrator manages to create meaningful relationships with diverse people. However, the quality of the writing and storytelling was fairly poor. (  )blwoods | Mar 25, 2008 | 0.212 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 156341029X, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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