 | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Kennedy
Buy used from: $4.50 nonfiction--somewhat limited in scope, but sufficiently in-depth to mostly compensate
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 | Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg
Buy new: $10.46 / Used from: $8.64 fiction, but semiautobiographical. very readable, very worthwhile.
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 | Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.25 interesting take on gender--and while I know there are many who disagree with Bornstein's P.O.V., I admire her refusal to deny that she's as queer as the rest of us.
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 | Back to Basics: A Butch/Femme Anthology
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.18 butch/femme erotica. and nobody gets "marked" with pocketknives! hooray!
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 | Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana
Buy used from: $3.22 a little of everything. n/f, f, essays, interviews. totally worth it just for the first essay and the photos.
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 | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women) by Lillian Faderman
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 nonfiction--historical.
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 | Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman
Buy new: $15.96 / Used from: $4.45 Faderman's autobiography. supremely readable, wonderful book.
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 | Deliver Us from Evie by M. E. Kerr
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 fiction--written from the P.O.V. of a butch's little brother in a small, rural town.
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 | Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
Buy new: $16.05 / Used from: $9.79 confession: I mostly just look at the pictures. this has a great deal of interesting discussion on what "masculinity" means in a woman--but it's fairly academic and correspondingly dry.
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