Stone Butch Blues: 20th Anniversary Author Edition Sale

“Stone Butch Blues,” Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 first novel, is considered in and outside the U.S. to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation.” Sold by hundreds of thousands of copies, passed hand-to-hand inside prisons, the novel has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew–with earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women–and won the 1994 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award and 1994 Lambda Literary Award. Feinberg said in hir Author’s Note to the 2003 edition: “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 is a lesbian novel and a transgender novel—making ‘trans’ genre a verb, as well as an adjective.”