Stone Butch Blues
Träume in den erwachenden Morgen
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Publisher Description
Buffalo, N.Y. – eine Industriestadt in den sechziger Jahren. Hier verbringt Jess Goldberg ihre Kindheit und Jugend. Jess ist ein Mädchen, doch sie sieht aus wie ein Junge. Mit 15 hält sie es daheim nicht mehr aus. Sie haut ab. Sie sucht sich einen Job. Die Bar Abba's bietet Jess eine Heimat – eine bunte Gemeinschaft von Butches und Femmes, von Huren und Drag Queens, von Schwarzen und Weißen. Eine Gemeinschaft, die nicht ungefährlich lebt. In den brutalen Razzien der Polizei erreicht der gesellschaftliche Hass auf alle, die anders sind, seinen Höhepunkt. Überleben erfordert stete Wachsamkeit, Stärke und Mut. Rückhalt findet Jess in ihrer Community. Und bei ihrer großen Liebe: Theresa.
Kultbuch und Klassiker – Der Stonewall-Roman!
Ein großartiger Roman, der bewegt und berührt und lesbisch-queere Geschichte lebendig werden lässt.
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This compelling but uneven first novel follows the sexual travails of lesbian Jess Goldberg. At its start she is a girl who feels confused by strict ideas about gender and who wonders if she might be a ``he-she'' since people often ask whether she is a boy or a girl. Constantly searching, she quickly moves from trying on her father's suits to visiting bars and transforming herself into a full-blown ``butch,'' complete with her own dildo. As police crackdowns on gay bars result in more than one night in jail, Goldberg decides to begin taking male hormones and have a breast reduction in order to pass as a man. Although she delights in visiting the barber and being able to use the men's room--and even manages to make love to a woman without being discovered--the emotional complications of changing her sex (and hence her identity) build up until she ceases to take her hormone shots. Certain transmutations, like her lowered voice, cannot be reversed, however, so she is now even less defined as a member of a specific gender. Goldberg and her like-minded friends who have embraced the butch/femme dichotomy find they have no place in either the nascent women's or gay pride movements. Feinberg attempts to present Goldberg's life as the personal side of political history, but the narrative seems unattached to time despite the insertion of landmark events like the Stonewall riot and the mention of Reagan and the Moral Majority.
