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butchfemme books and media!¡

valentina - Updated 10/31/25

nonfiction (femmes pov)
The Persistent Desire : a femmebutch
Website
https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-18_60f48dbbdb063_ThePersistentDesireaFemme-ButchReaderbyJoanNestlez-lib.org_.pdf
Lineage To My Femme Foremothers
Website
https://archive.org/details/lineage-to-my-femme-foremothers/mode/2up
The Femme Mystique
Leslea Newman • 1995
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity
Anna Camilleri • 2003
A Restricted Country
Joan Nestle • 2003
My Butch Career
Esther Newton • unde
The Butch Mystique A Femme's Perspective
Claudia Castille • 2023
The femme guide to the universe
Shar Rednour
Website
https://archive.org/details/femmesguidetouni0000redn/mode/1up
On the Appropriation of Femme from Lesbians Over Everything, a discussion between four femmes ⋆ article
Website
https://lesbiansovereverything.com/on-the-appropriation-of-femme/

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Fiction
Letter from a High Femme (to Every Butch She's Ever Loved) A Novel
Emma Renault • 2021
Hijab Butch Blues
Lamya H • 2023
Tipping the Velvet: A Novel
Sarah Waters • 1999
Beebo Brinker
Ann Bannon • 2001
Burning Butch
R/B Mertz • 2022
Stone Butch Blues: A Novel
Leslie Feinberg • 2004
A Crystal Diary A Novel
Frankie Hucklenbroich • 1997
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall • 2014
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo • 2021
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin • 2013
A Dark and Drowning Tide A Novel
Allison Saft • 2024
The Unbroken
C. L. Clark • 2021

erotica
Sometimes She Lets Me Best Butch Femme Erotica
Tristan Taormino • 2010
Back to basics: A Butch-Femme Anthology
Theresa Szymanski
Hard Road, Easy Riding: Lesbian Biker Erotica
Sacchi Green • 2006
The Harder She Comes
D.L. King
The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny and Other Rhythms
Joann Loulan • 1990
Breathless: Erotica
Kitty Tsui • 1996
Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction
Pat Califia • 1994

nonfiction (butches pov)
Female Husbands
Jen Manion • 2020
Tomboy Survival Guide
Ivan Coyote • 2016
Butch is a Noun
S. Bear Bergman • 2010
More Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell • 2025
The Little Butch Book
Leslea Newman • 1998
Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell • 2018
Female Masculinity
Judith Halberstam • 1998
Dagger: On Butch Women
Lily Burana • 1994
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy • 2014

butchfemme history
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
Ivan Coyote • 2011
Website
https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-18_60f453ae745a0_1Persistence_AllWaysButchand-IvanE.Coyote.pdfbycripez-lib.org_compressed.pdf
Lesbian Identity and the politics of butchfemme
Amy goodloe
Website
https://amygoodloe.com/papers/lesbian-identity-and-the-politics-of-butch-femme/
Gender Failure
Ivan Coyote • 2014
Narrating and negotiating butch and femme : storying lesbian selves in a heteronormative world
Crawley, Sarah L
Website
https://archive.org/details/narratingnegotia00craw/mode/2up
Butch Between the Wars: A Pre-History of Butch Style in Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Film
Karen Allison Hammer ⋆ dissertation
Website
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3198&context=gc_etds
Framing lesbian fashion (1992)
Butch/femme
Sally Munt • 1998
Apparences can be deceiving
Alix Gitner
Website
https://archive.org/details/alix-genter-appearances-can-be-deceiving/mode/2up
Before Stonewall
Andrea Weiss
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
Lillian Faderman • 2012
Femme/Butch
Michelle Gibson • 2002
The new queer erotics of Butch and femme
Kathleen Bennett
What Does it Mean to be a Butch/Femme Couple? An Exploration of Identity Formation, Experience, and Couple Dynamics, 2011.

media
A Complicated Queerness: Living Femme in a Dyke Community
Johanna Buchignani, Emily Hillman ⋆ short film
Notes
This film investigates the ways in which gender, power and sexism are lived and experienced within the San Francisco Mission dyke community. The documentary aims to promote awareness of and discussion about the prejudice and invisibility of queer femininity, in order to build alliances and healthier communities.
Website
https://vimeo.com/3493274
A butch road map
Ivan Coyote
Website
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-py8zojfk
Gay tape: Butch and Femme
Cecilia Dougherty
Website
https://archive.org/details/gay-tape-butch-femme_14156_pm0017831
Dream girls (1994)
Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams ⋆ documentary.
Website
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7scayo
Gender Troubles: The Butches
Lisa Plourde
Website
https://gendertroubles.com/watch-for-free.html
Nothing but the Girl : The Blatant Lesbian Image
Susie Bright • 1997