[PDF/Kindle] Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Stone Butch Blues
- Leslie Feinberg
- Page: 660
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781459608450
- Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, LLC
Kindle ebooks download: Stone Butch Blues in English DJVU 9781459608450
Overview
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,