Your session has expired. If you found “People who have lived very different lives have generously related to me the similarities they recognized in these pages with their own struggles—the taste of bile; the inferno of rage—transsexual men and women, heterosexual cross-dressers and bearded females, intersexual and androgynous people, bi-gender and tri-gender individuals, and many other exquisitely defined and expressed identities.”“The use of the word ‘transgender’ has changed over the two decades since I wrote “I have been isolated by illness from discussions about language for more than half a decade.”“So I can only note that, like planes, trains and automobiles, the same technological vehicles of hormones and surgeries take people on different journeys in their lives—depending on whether their oppression/s is/are based on sex/es, self/gender expressions, sexualities, nationalities, immigration status, health and/or dis/abilities, and/or economic exploitation of their labor.”Illness and then hir death in 2014 kept hir from a further task for the Author’s Edition:“I had hoped to write an introduction to place this novel within its social and historical context, the last half of the 20th century. Please add your card again, or add a different card.
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Context is everything in politics, and But hir earlier words still resonate with the meaning of “[With] this novel I planted a flag: Here I am—does anyone else want to discuss these important issues? Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation.” Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons, Stone Butch Blues has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew (with hir earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women).
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looking for an audiobook of stone butch blues. The 20th Anniversary Author’s Edition of Stone Butch Blues is available in multiple formats:. In Stone Butch Blues, Feinberg’s character Jess eventually stops taking hormone replacement … Stone Butch Blues, to me, is the greatest, most important queer novel in the world, because it does not only offer an insular experience of difference. It has everything: class, race, privilege, poverty, the complexities of being stuck in the binary (way before gender fluid was even a term), the way minorities split into factions.
It’s a movement classic, 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 … . Add a library card to your account to borrow titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list.
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Stone Butch Blues, to me, is the greatest, most important queer novel in the world, because it does not only offer an insular experience of difference.
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