num_pages: 304
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Stone Butch Blues
titlecomplete: Stone Butch Blues
genres: Fiction, Gender, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Transgender, Feminism, Classics, Historical Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 26420
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Small Press Book Award
publisher: Firbrand Books