Published in: March-April 2019 issue.
My Butch Career: A Memoir
by Esther Newton
Duke Univ. Press. 263 pages, $29.95
The Masculine Mystique
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My Butch Career joins a distinguished list of lesbian herstories that includes Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Lillian Faderman’s Naked in the Promised Land. It is for readers interested in the psychological and cultural challenges for an individual who identifies as a butch lesbian, as well as readers who are interested in lesbian herstory within the greater context of the gay rights movement.
