Butch is a Noun

If you're confused about the brave new world of gender plurality, this is a good book to start with. The author admits it's confusing, but helps you understand what it's about and how to deal with it if you're cisgender and binary. And how to live comfortably with it if you're transgender or non-binary. Or butch.

I am a queer woman who feels little personal connection with a personal experience of either butch or femme who also has a great deal of personal connection to butches and femmes. This book gave me a framework for the kind of butchness that can be gentle and loving, a butch love that is fierce.Butch is a Noun is a collection of essays that comprise that framework. At times, I felt that the essays were too short, that a certain amount of narrative depth was lost by the almost journal-style of the essays and that a couple of them could have been combined to provide more variance in style and form.However, I think Butch is a Noun found it's best footing as a gender critique. Butch is a Noun is an often loving experience of genderqueerness and transgressiveness, but Bear never stops asking questions like "How can we do better?" I was particularly appreciative of the essay addressing misogyny in butches and of the essays shining a loving light on butch-butch love. Bear doesn't simply tell hir stories, zie provides a range of experiences as a framework to start to ask questions and (maybe) explore some answers.

Interesting about "What is a Butch" or not as may be. For any Lesbian who wants to know the past and the dynamics of relationships. Very good.

I found this book absolutely delightful. The author did a wonderful job of delving into topics that are generally spoken about, and ze did a wonderful job of painting an undiluted portrait of butches in general. A must read for all, especially parents with butch daughters.

For some reason,I couldn't get into this book.I wanted to,but I couldn't.Maybe I'll try again one day soon with different results.

If u were ever a tomboy, it's fun to relate and laugh about her childhood memories.It's an interesting perspective on what it means to be butch

This should be taught as Butch 101. I wish it were on the shelves of my local library and especially at my local high school.

I rarely, if ever, write reviews but I feel compelled to do so in this instance. This book is not what it purports to be - a book about the experience of being born and living butch. It is the "story" - not really a story but a collection of often unintelligible essays - from a woman who went through a co-dependent, butch phase in her life some years ago. The afterword says it all. She is now heterosexual, married to a man, living in Canada, and has given birth to a son. The "wife" she so gloriously describes in her essays is gone now. This is a step backward in support of the butch-femme dynamic. Read Stone Butch Blues instead to understand dignity, sense of history, legitimacy, and birthright.

Great book, arrived on time.

Beautiful writing for a great subject. A must for all Butches