Butch Is A Noun

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Butch is a Noun was a critical and commercial success when first published in 2006: a funny, insightful manifesto on what it means to be butch. Irreverent, tender, funny, difficult and sexy, Butch is a Noun is a narrative about growing-up and coming-out butch, wrestling and embracing it and then wrestling with it some more. This is a story of butch in its best and worst moments, about butch in the context of femme, butch in the orbit of another butch and butch trying to stand alone, sometimes bravely and sometimes foolishly, sometimes successfully and sometimes fatally.

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"Butch is a Noun" is a book that a) should be required reading in any gender studies curriculum;b) femmes should read whenever they're feeling unloved, lonely, or misunderstood; c) butches should read; d) all of the above. The answer, of course, is d. Thank you, dear Bear.
Kate Bornstein, author of "Gender Outlaw"--Kate Bornstein "Kate Bornstein "
Bear's poetry of butchness lets us see into facets of gender that usually aren't so transparent. And made me fall in love with butches all over again.
Carol Queen, author of "Real Live Nude Girl"--Carol Queen "Carol Queen "

Author Bio

S. Bear Bergman: S. Bear Bergman is an activist, gender-jammer, and author of The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (Arsenal, 2009). Formerly based in New England, she relocated to Canada in 2008.