{"product_id":"stone-butch-blues-by-leslie-feinberg","title":"Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg","description":"\u003cp id=\"description\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"freeText7550351366290235495\"\u003eThis internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"freeText7550351366290235495\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStone Butch Blues\u003c\/em\u003e traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"buyButtonContainer\" data-book-id=\"139569\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStone Butch Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 first novel, is widely considered to be a ground breaking work about the complexities of gender. Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeinberg commented on\u003cem\u003e Stone Butch Blues\u003c\/em\u003e in hir Author’s Note to the 2003 edition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Like my own life, this novel defies easy classification. If you found Stone Butch Blues in a bookstore or library, what category was it in? Lesbian fiction? Gender studies? Like the germinal novel The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe\/John Hall, this book is a lesbian novel and a transgender novel—making ‘trans’ genre a verb, as well as an adjective...”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeslie Feinberg worked up to a few days before hir death to ready the 20th anniversary Author’s Edition of \u003cem\u003eStone Butch Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, to make it available to all, for free. This action was part of hir entire life work as a communist to change the world in the struggle for justice and liberation from oppression. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 366 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31999004770389,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/4D62C7B4-2D2E-4640-BA43-FB6BF9780E85.jpg?v=1761041562","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/stone-butch-blues-by-leslie-feinberg","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}