Stone Butch Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone Butch Blues write by Leslie Feinberg. This book was released on 2010. Stone Butch Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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? Thats 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, 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.
Trans Liberation
Trans Liberation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trans Liberation write by Leslie Feinberg. This book was released on 1999-10-10. Trans Liberation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and stirring book is for anyone who cares about civil rights and creating a just and equitable society.
Transgender Warriors
Transgender Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transgender Warriors write by Leslie Feinberg. This book was released on 1997-06-30. Transgender Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the fight for trans liberation This groundbreaking book—far ahead of its time when first published in 1996 and still galvanizing today—interweaves history, memoir, and gender studies to show that transgender people, far from being a modern phenomenon, have always existed and have exerted their influence throughout history. Leslie Feinberg—hirself a lifelong transgender revolutionary—reveals the origin of the check-one-box-only gender system and shows how zie found empowerment in the lives of transgender warriors around the world, from the Two Spirits of the Americas to the many genders of India, from the trans shamans of East Asia to the gender-bending Queen Nzinga of Angola, from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and beyond. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.
Drag King Dreams
Drag King Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drag King Dreams write by Leslie Feinberg. This book was released on 2006. Drag King Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future -- fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq -- with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future.
The Search for Identity in Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues"
The Search for Identity in Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Search for Identity in Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues" write by Ester Schoefberger. This book was released on 2010-11-16. The Search for Identity in Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University (Institut Anglistik), course: HS „The Cultural Study of Masculinity“, language: English, abstract: Before writing this paper, I didn't know what the term “butch” meant. I tried to find out through texts and on the Internet what it meant, and I soon found out that there were many different definitions. I lost myself in blogs of people who defined themselves as butch, and the conclusion was that the definition has to do both with femininity and masculinity. After reading Leslie Feinberg's novel Stone Butch Blues (1993), the meaning of the term was at least a little more clear. I decided to write the paper on this concept, mainly driven by curiosity. It was like looking into a room full of books and feeling the desire to read them all, with the conviction that every book had to tell a different story. I decided to call the paper “The Search for Identity in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues” because I think that Jess's search goes beyond her self-definition as a butch. The story narrates the search for identity of an individual who has to choose between given categories. At the end, Jess chooses to refuse a stable definition, because no one fits properly. I chose to follow the main character through the search, annotating every stage and trying to find confirmation in the critique.
