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  Stone Butch Blues

  by Leslie Feinberg

  Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. 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... (more)
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  In Her I Am

  by Chrystos

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  Femme: Feminists, Lesbians and Bad Girls

  by Laura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker

  IFemme seeks to redress the ways that femme identities have been elided, idealized, or not fully historicized in a productive reconsideration of lesbian and butch-femme history, of feminism, and of queer thought. As a feminist project, IFemme offers an alliance between many communities of women previously passed over by feminism. Contributors: Leah Lilith Albrecht-Samarasinha, Barbara Cruikshank, Madeline Davis,... (more)
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  A Fragile Union

  New & Selected Writings

  by Joan Nestle

  A FRAGILE UNION is Joan Nestle's collection of intimate essays and narratives about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, sex writing, the importance of preserving gay and lesbian history, the love that is possible between lesbians and gay men, and the "often-shaky camaraderie among lesbians that as community continues to flex its diversity." Readers of A REDISTRICTED COUNTRY and other Nestle... (more)
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  Consensual Genocide

  by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race... (more)
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  Crossdressing

  Erotic Stories

  by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Debra Hyde

  From femmes who channel Marlene Dietrich in the sexiest of suits to men who love nothing more than the feel silky panties stretched tight against their skin, these characters boldly indulge their fantasies of being a girl — or a guy — for a night. Drag queens get dolled up for a night on the town, a dyke packs a special surprise beneath her dress, and a devoted husband puts his dress-up skills to the ultimate test... (more)
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  Les Catilinaires

  by Amélie Nothomb

  Everything starts when a retired couple realize their dream of having a house in the countryside, close to a forest, to live in peace and solitude.They have no other neighbours except an old doctor and his wife. Out of politeness, they meet their neighbour, Palamedes Bernardin, and from that moment on Palamedes starts visiting them like clockwork, every afternoon from 4 to 6 exactly, or rather, he comes into... (more)
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  Trois Femmes Puissantes

  by Marie NDiaye

  Prix Goncourt 2009
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  UN BRILLANT AVENIR

  by Catherine Cusset

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  Femmes

  by Mihail Sebastian

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  The Femme Mystique

  by Lesléa Newman

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  Brazen Femme

  Queering Femininity

  by Chloë Brushwood Rose, Anna Camilleri

  Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated femme experience emerging in performance, betrayal, -violence, humor and survival. Brazen Femme recognizes femme as an... (more)
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  My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage

  by Barrie Jean Borich

  Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
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  A Restricted Country

  by Joan Nestle

  A proud working-class woman, an "out" lesbian long before the Rainbow revolution, Joan Nestle has stood at the forefront of American freedom struggles from the McCarthy era to the present day. Featuring photographs and a new introduction by the author, this classic collection which intimately accounts the lesbian, feminist and civil rights movements through personal essays is available again for the first time in... (more)