Stone Butch Blues

About this book

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. 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.