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  <title><![CDATA[Stone Butch Blues: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;P&gt;Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;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 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.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Leslie Feinberg is also the author of &lt;I&gt;Trans Liberation&lt;/I&gt;, &lt;I&gt;Trans Gender Warriors &lt;/I&gt;and &lt;I&gt;Transgender Liberation&lt;/I&gt;, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues. &lt;/P&gt;</default-description>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 14 10:48:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i teach this novel to college students, and have taught it for about three years now. there is no other book, in my opinion, that divides a class so radically -- some students love this book and cant stop reading it, despite acknowledging that it is one depressing representation of americas history ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15415291">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not give many 5-star ratings just because I consider a 5-star rating to be hard to attain by anyone. But I HAD to give 5-stars to this book. I almost feel as if it is cliche to say this book is AMAZING since so many people feel the same way. But I suppose that is just an attestment to the fine ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17650326">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminded me of how fluent I used to be in academic-speak, and how much of that I seem to have lost.  I like to think if I was immersed in it again it would come back to me.  But I know from Spanish that it wouldn't be immediate, and that it's my own fault for not keeping it up.  I'm findin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16871246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, I know everyone and their mom thinks this is the best book ever, and really it is quite amazing and so is everything that Leslie Feinberg does. But i have to say besides all the reasons everyone loves this book I remember the exact moment I read the opening letter in this book and how I was tota...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14191465">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stone Butch Blues is first of all a contemporary &quot;Well of Loneliness&quot;, which in and of itself is a remarkable accomplishment. It brings the transgender experience into the current in an intensely personal and human way. It is also a panorama of the political developments of the latter half...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21597557">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 28 13:08:14 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was in college, I wanted to take an easy class that would just involve reading novels. I picked a professor who I thought was a straightforward teacher, but the only class he was teaching that semester was &quot;Gay Literature.&quot; What the heck? I thought. It is just my easy class. Well, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44668129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73660810">
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some books that are so big to a genre or a topic that they are seminal. This is one of those books. If you are looking for a book to read so that you understand the experience of an LGBTQ person, this is (the) one to read. If you want to know the history of the LGBTQ movement, this is a bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73660810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is really quite difficult to put this book down, as it absolutely sucks you into the tornadoed life of it's queer/trans hero who has to survive their own sexuality and gender without any guidelines.  It was shocking, but necessary to remember the actual laws that were put into place to demean, de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70267826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40650450">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m comforted by how lonely every person’s day to day life can be, and the phases of success and depression that the main character goes through.  Continue to be startled at how violent our world can be.  I’ve always heard guys talk about bullies and getting beat-up….but never have I seen it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40650450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61588537">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is easily one of the best books that I have read, fiction or otherwise. Feinberg does an amazing job of bringing to light the horrible treatment that GLBT people faced during the days before and during the different political and social movements, but where the book really shines is how it func...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61588537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71766400">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read something that felt so familiar.  I never cry over books, but this book brought me to tears over and over.  I started reading this in the midst of heartache over a partner who shares the name of the lover Jess writes to in this book.  I harbor an almost spiritual connection with this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71766400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20021155">
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was kind of formative for me, it made a big impact on me as a teenager and again, half my life later. I found my own thought echoed in the book and realized how it somehow shaped me. It's a difficult story to read - my teenage self imagined it set in such a distant past. But really the sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20021155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65256895">
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    <body><![CDATA[How ignorant I am! I had no idea the amount of positive influence the labor unions had on lesbians, nor the amount of negative influence from the women's movement on &quot;he-shes.&quot; The indignities and tortures faced by these women at the hands of the police are heartbreaking. I was surprised b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65256895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22242398">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book....where to begin?  Lets just say that I have owned MANY copies.  Some I wore out because of how many times I combed through it.  Some I gave away.  I love this book.]]></body>
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    <review id="47540410">
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    <body><![CDATA[God, what a book.  I read it once when I bought it (probably in about 1993) and have never read it again even though it was so incredible. It's kind of like Boys Don't Cry-so moving and yet painful. It is truly astounding what my queer ancestors had to live with so I could be free to be who I am now...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47540410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34157197">
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    <body><![CDATA[wow. this book was beautiful to me. and extremely painful to read.  it was as depressing as it was full of hope at every turn.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible story, incredible person.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ For a ground-breaking novel, it follows such a predictable, sad path. I really hate to break on such a painful tale (and life), but this book is almost too depressing to finish. Being queer and transgressing gender is difficult in the best of circumstances and Feinberg did not have the best of circ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74606706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. Yeah, I read it for a class, but I loved it anyway. There are so many reasons why I fell in love with this book. One, the story just sucked me in, the way all good stories do. And I was really drawn to the main character, Jess. I relate strongly to any character that expresses a f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37847915">more...</a>]]></body>
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