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By Leslie Feinberg, 1993Check out lesliefeinberg.net for more information.
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.
It might be good to replace the link above with a link to Leslie Feinberg’s own website wherein the same pdf can be downloaded, but without going against what hirself wanted:
“No digital rights. I’m sticking with the union!
I do not assign any digital rights.
Stone Butch Blues lives on the digital page here at http://www.lesliefeinberg.net/.
Please do not digitally remove Stone Butch Blues from the digital page where it lives; please do not repost the book or parts of the book.”
Normally, we wouldn’t do this, but since it is the exact same pdf and the request was made, I have redirected the link to Feinberg’s site.
I appreciate you making the change, thank you.