a butch-femme bibliography
books about butch & femme identities and dynamics (support your local women's or independent bookstore)

Butch-Femme

• The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny and Other Rhythms by Joanne Loulan, Sherry Thomas
• The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Edited by Joan Nestle
• Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
• Back To Basics: A Butch/Femme Anthology by Therese Szymanski
• Femme/Butch: New Considerations of The Way We Want To Go by Michelle Gibson & Deborah T. Meem (Editors)
• A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle
• Skin:Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison
• A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle
• Butch/Femme by M.G. Soares
• Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender by Sally R. Munt, Cherry Smith
• Butch-Femme: Theorizing Lesbian Genders by Sally Munt

• Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, Edited by Anna Camilleri & Chloe Brushwood Rose
• My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber Hollibaugh, Dorothy Allison
• The Femme's Guide To The Universe by Shar Rednour
• Femme: Feminists, Lesbians & Bad Girls, Edited by Laura Harris & Elizabeth Crocker
• The Femme Mystique by Leslea Newman
• Out of the Closet with Nothing to Wear by Leslea Newman
• Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian by Biddy Martin

• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (novel)
• Dagger: On Butch Women, Edited by Lily Burana, Roxxie, Linnea Due
• Crystal Diary: A Novel by Frankie Hucklenbroich (novel)
• S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
  
• The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman
• Bulletproof Butches by Chea Villanueva (short stories)
• Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon (novel)

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