- ISBN13: 9781555838539
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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? 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 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 w… More >>
I was required to read this book for a class in college. I would never have picked it otherwise. I learned that these people are just as messed up as the rest of us, fighting and clawing their way through life. It was an honest depiction of lesbian life and I do commend it for this.
Rating: 1 / 5
Although I have to agree that the concerns of the lesbian and gay communities should be taken seriously and are important, I cannot really praise this book. The cheap metaphors are offending the reader’s intelligence. Only homosexuality doesn’t make a good writer. Nevertheless, I liked the interesting chronology.
Rating: 2 / 5
While this book is considered groundbreaking because of the subject matter, sadly it is subpar in all other categories.
It read like a bad romance novel and I find it offensive that the writer uses stereotypical and incorrect pan-indian gender ideologies as the characters’ inspiration for embracing their feelings and realization of their psychic crisis; examples of this are an old navajo woman prophesizes that the baby jess will walk a difficult path and gives her a ring of someone gender neutral (As I understand it in traditional dine gender roles there isn’t really gender neutrality), the indians that work in the factory with jess are the only ones that accept the baby butch, and the red-headed transgendered character at the end saw an indian too when he discovered that he wanted to be a she. According to the author, if I were walking down the streets I could inspire millions of white people to put on dresses or bind their breasts. (…) So that and the writing is why I give this book 1 star.
Rating: 1 / 5
Ash, was reading reviews for this book. I too am a new out Butch, not Stone but still feel the man living inside my female body. If you read this, please get in touch with me.
When going by *reviewers* I’m number 350013.YOu can get my contact info from there to email me.
Would love to hear from you. We can swop *coming out stories*
Ellen
Rating: 5 / 5
I am very upset about the purchase. I purchased over a month ago and I never received the item. I tried contacting the seller for getting my refund but he never responded to my email.
Rating: 1 / 5