Stone butch
A stone butch is a lesbian or trans-masculine person who displays female butchness or traditional "masculinity".[1] Stone butches usually do not like to be sexually touched genitally by their partners; however, they still provide their partners with sexual gratification, and often experience pleasure themselves in doing so.[2] A stone butch woman is also receptive to receiving sexual pleasure from her female partner in different ways as well.
The term was popularized by Leslie Feinberg in Stone Butch Blues, a 1993 novel describing the protagonist's explorations of the lesbian community. A large segment of the novel is devoted to the tribulations of being a stone butch person.[3] At the end of the novel the protagonist ultimately settles the battle between her gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual role by claiming the autonomy to identify however she wishes.
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- ^ Halberstam, Judith (1998). "Even Stone Butches Get the Blues". Female Masculinity. Duke University Press.
- ^ Zimmerman, Bonnie (2000). Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures. Routledge. p. 140. ISBN 9780815319207.
- ^ 1949-2014., Feinberg, Leslie, (1993). Stone butch blues : a novel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books. ISBN 1555838537. OCLC 27336208.
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