Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

Paperback, 1993

Call number

A FIC F

Tags

CHECKED, A FIC F, ***Fiction, **Adult Fiction, *Adult, Identity: transgender, Time Period: 1950s, coming out, Identity: butch, Identity: lesbian, Culture: blue-collar, gender, sexuality

Description

Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 1993)
Stonewall Book Award (Winner — Literature — 1994)
The Great American Novels (1993)

Subjects

Coming out (Sexual orientation) Fiction
Lesbians Fiction
Psychological fiction
Transsexuals Fiction

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