Butch Is a Noun

by Bergman, S. Bear

• ISBN13: 9781551523699
• ISBN10: 1551523698
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd

Summary

Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman,won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it meansto be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessibleto those who are new to the concept, and makesgender outlaws of all stripes feel as though theyhave come home. From girls' clothes to men'shaircuts, from walking with girls to hangingwith young men, Butch is a Nounchronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living lifeoutside the gender binary.This new edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
A Note to the Reader	p. 11
I Know What Butch Is	p. 15
Fire the Copyeditor, or Possibly the Author: A Few Notes on Pronouns	p. 20
Defending Identity	p. 24
Tranny Bladder	p. 29
Taxonomy	p. 32
Walking with Girls	p. 34
Wrestling	p. 38
Being a Butch with Young Men	p. 42
Breasts	p. 46
Why I'm Not a Nice Young Man (Yet)	p. 55
Cocks	p. 59
Border Wars	p. 64
Watching Our Fathers	p. 72
Bridal Registry	p. 75
White Button-Down Shirts	p. 79
Virtual Butch Reality	p. 82
The Honorable Butch Office of Moving	p. 88
Passing It Along	p. 91
Boxer Briefs	p. 95
Where Butch Resides	p. 99
That Moment	p. 102
What My Daddy Taught Me	p. 105
Foie d'Butch	p. 109
When It's Good	p. 113
Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, but Words Will Kill Me	p. 115
High-Heeled Shoes	p. 119
My Butch Brothers	p. 123
Crossing the Street	p. 127
Hair	p. 129
Being an Asshole	p. 135
What a Butch May Use	p. 138
Femme for Dummies	p. 141
When I'm Far from Home	p. 147
Faggot Butch	p. 149
What the Stone Is Made Of	p. 153
Butch in the Streets, Femme in the Shul?	p. 156
An Apology to My Mother	p. 159
Princess Pickle	p. 163
When I Can't Fix It	p. 166
Being a Delight	p. 171
Chat, or How I Learned to Flirt, Part 1	p. 175
Your Faithful Servant	p. 177
The Drawbridge	p. 180
Dancing	p. 183
Getting Fucked	p. 187
Making Her Feel ...	p. 190
Being a Shopping Switch	p. 193
Laying Down with a Butch	p. 200
Touch	p. 207
This Gesture	p. 210
You	p. 214
Afterword to the New Edition	p. 217
About the Author	p. 224
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