Butch is a noun

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 means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear 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. From girls' clothes to men's haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living l.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note To The Reader -- I Know What Butch Is -- Fire The Copyeditor, Or Possibly The Author -- Defending Identity -- Tranny Bladder -- Taxonomy -- Walking With Girls -- Wrestling -- Being A Butch With Young Men -- Why IM Not A Nice Young Man (Yet) -- Cocks -- Border Wars -- Watching Our Fathers -- Bridal Registry -- White Button-Down Shirts -- Virtual Butch Reality -- The Honorable Butch Office Of Moving -- Passing It Along -- Boxer Briefs -- Where Butch Resides -- That Moment -- What My Daddy Taught Me -- Foie DButch -- When ItS Good -- Sticks And Stones Will Break My Bones, Butwords Will Kill Me -- High-Heeled Shoes -- My Butch Brothers -- Crossing The Street -- Hair -- Being An Asshole -- What A Butch May Use -- Femme For Dummies -- When IM Far From Home -- Faggot Butch -- What The Stone Is Made Of -- Butch In The Streets, Femme In The Shul? -- An Apology To My Mother -- Princess Pickle -- When I CanT Fix It -- Being A Delight -- Chat, Or How I Learned To Flirt, Part 1 -- Your Faithful Servant -- The Drawbridge -- Dancing -- Getting Fucked -- Making Her Feel 8230; -- Being A Shopping Switch -- Laying Down With A Butch -- Touch -- This Ges…