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Butch is a noun : essays

" ... Makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home"--Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2010
Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, ©2010
LGBTQ YA
223 pages ; 23 cm
9781551523699, 1551523698
601122937
Acknowledgments9(2)
A Note to the Reader11(4)
I Know What Butch Is15(5)
Fire the Copyeditor, or Possibly the Author: A Few Notes on Pronouns20(4)
Defending Identity
24(5)
Tranny Bladder
29(3)
Taxonomy
32(2)
Walking with Girls
34(4)
Wrestling
38(4)
Being a Butch with Young Men
42(4)
Breasts
46(9)
Why I'm Not a Nice Young Man (Yet)
55(4)
Cocks
59(5)
Border Wars
64(8)
Watching Our Fathers
72(3)
Bridal Registry
75(4)
White Button-Down Shirts
79(3)
Virtual Butch Reality
82(6)
The Honorable Butch Office of Moving
88(3)
Passing It Along
91(4)
Boxer Briefs
95(4)
Where Butch Resides
99(3)
That Moment
102(3)
What My Daddy Taught Me
105(4)
Foie d'Butch
109(4)
When It's Good
113(2)
Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, but Words Will Kill Me
115(4)
High-Heeled Shoes
119(4)
My Butch Brothers
123(4)
Crossing the Street
127(2)
Hair
129(6)
Being an Asshole
135(3)
What a Butch May Use
138(3)
Femme for Dummies
141(6)
When I'm Far from Home
147(2)
Faggot Butch
149(4)
What the Stone Is Made Of
153(3)
Butch in the Streets, Femme in the Shul?
156(3)
An Apology to My Mother
159(4)
Princess Pickle
163(3)
When I Can't Fix It
166(5)
Being a Delight
171(4)
Chat, or How I Learned to Flirt, Part 1
175(2)
Your Faithful Servant
177(3)
The Drawbridge
180(3)
Dancing
183(4)
Getting Fucked
187(3)
Making Her Feel
190(3)
Being a Shopping Switch
193(7)
Laying Down with a Butch
200(7)
Touch
207(3)
This Gesture
210(4)
You
214(3)
Afterword to the New Edition217(7)
About the Author224