Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
First edition of a landmark work of queer literature.
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, learning to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.
Firebrand Books, 1993.
ISBN: 9781563410291. 301 pp.
First edition.
Softcover. Very good.
Some notes in pen.