Stone Butch Blues: 20th Anniversary Author Edition"Stone Butch Blues," Leslie Feinbergs 1993 first novel, is considered in and outside the U. S. to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of transgender liberation. Sold by hundreds of thousands of copies, passed hand to hand inside prisons, the novel has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew with earnings from that edition